Family Quote by Jennifer Egan

“Behind the desk was nothing but view-the whole city flung out in front of us the way street vendors fling out their towels packed…

— Jennifer Egan

I just think that, for my particular personality, feeling slightly invisible is always a help.

— Jennifer Egan

Between books, I have to throw out everything I did before, because the tools I've used to write the previous book will not only…

— Jennifer Egan

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

— Jennifer Egan

I teach intermittently, and while I enjoy it, I don't find that it's a calling for me.

— Jennifer Egan

Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it…

— Jennifer Egan

“Thousands of solar panels lift and tilt at the same time, in the same way. I clutch at Dad's arm: "Why are they doing…

— Jennifer Egan

It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to…

— Jennifer Egan

I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would…

— Jennifer Egan

“The seconds pass. I know what’s going on because it’s the same thing that always happens: give me something nice, something I love or…

— Jennifer Egan

I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I…

— Jennifer Egan

At night, the house thick with sleep, she would peer out her bedroom window at the trees and sky and feel the presence of…

— Jennifer Egan