Error Quote by Jennifer Egan Download Open image “I think playing the glamour card is a disastrous error as a literary writer.” — Jennifer Egan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Error Glamour I think Literary Think Writing
“Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!” — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
“A mistake is the name we give to any action in which we perceive a difference between what we intended and what has occurred.… — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“In books, the hero was gone after the big blowup. He didn’t stick around in the vicinity doing mysterious shit, sending messages to the… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“Never underestimate a writer's vanity, especially that of a mediocre writer. (The Angel's Game)” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by… — Jacques-Louis David Copy Share Image
“It is the importance of this quality of generosity in fiction that requires a measure of childishness in the writer. People who have strong… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I just think that, for my particular personality, feeling slightly invisible is always a help. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I teach intermittently, and while I enjoy it, I don't find that it's a calling for me. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Between an Error and a Lie, there are Worlds – an Error is an unintended Mistake, a Lie is an intentional Audacity.” — Sino Melo Copy Share Image
This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Carve and polish it the way you like, error cannot be changed into a precious stone. — Ace Kid Copy Share Image
If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible. — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
“Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too.” — Tim Fargo Copy Share Image
Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
After working with many nutritionists, reading books, and practicing trial and error on my own body, I have finally found a way to control… — Suzanne Somers Copy Share Image
“Stop blaming other people for your mistakes. Until you are ready to admit that you are infallible, you are vulnerable for failure to whip.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Believe truth! Shun error!-these, we see, are two materially different laws; and by choosing between them we may end by coloring differently our whole… — William James Copy Share Image
“In short, if youth is not quite right in its opinions, there is a strong probability that age is not much more so. Undying… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“When I was a kid, they had a saying, 'to err is human but to really fuck it up takes a computer.’ ” — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
