"That adage about 'Write what you know' is……" — Jennifer Egan
"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."
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109 Quotes by Jennifer Egan
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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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Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing…
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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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It's the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline…
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I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help…
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The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first.
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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be…
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The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge…
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That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as…
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That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.
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Everything seems overwhelming when you stand back and look at the totality of it. I build a lot of stuff…
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I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a…
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A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the…
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America is full of businesses bearing old Christian names, but which are really owned and run by Jews. Most of…
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