"Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision,…" — Jennifer Egan
"Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection;"
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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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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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More Clean Quotes
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I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.'
— Eric Bana
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Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.
— Syd Barrett
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Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source…
— Scott Adams
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Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean…
— Ed Begley, Jr.
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I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of…
— Jello Biafra
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When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they've lost their grip.
— Lewis Black
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I do think one should have clean feet.
— Manolo Blahnik
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If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the…
— Erma Bombeck
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First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since,…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll…
— Charles Bukowski
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