"Read at the level at which you want……" — Jennifer Egan
"Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do."
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109 Quotes by Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan has 109 quotes on this site.
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I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, I'm going to ace this. It's just not who…
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So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably…
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I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the…
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One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed…
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I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love.... Even if it turns out not to be real.
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Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better.
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Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work,
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I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love…
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I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in…
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Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.
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Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took…
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I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life.
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More Feeds Quotes
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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that…
— Jeff Buckley
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
— Dick Cavett
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
— Winston Churchill
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Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is enough for everyone to have what they need without exploitation. Adequate distribution of resources, including education, without violence…
— Unknown Author
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Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes.…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Memory feeds imagination.
— Amy Tan
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Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives…
— Francis Quarles
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I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.
— Joseph Fiennes
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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom…
— Albert Camus
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True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters…
— Menno Simons
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