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Write Quotes by Jennifer Egan
- Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better.
- Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.
- Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.
- I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life.
- That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.
- We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading…
- Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that…
- But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see the world through…
- I hope to keep writing journalism as long as I write fiction; it's afforded me such amazing adventures and opportunities. It does take a lot…
- We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line of bullshit back…
- I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I do that is…
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