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In moments, I clutched at the notion of some larger "me" that could contain and justify my contradictory behavior, but more often I simply felt like the scene of two irreconcilable visions, two different people, one unerringly loyal and faithful, the other treacherous and greedy. -- Jennifer Egan
The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn and sat her forehead on her knees. The grass and soil were still warm from the day. She wanted to cry but she couldn't. The feeling was too deep. -- Jennifer Egan
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...our familiar features rinsed in weird adulthood. -- Jennifer Egan
Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners all over San Francisco. Their hair is tangled and their bare feet are thick and gray as shoes. We're sick of them. -- Jennifer Egan
I was obsessed with The Who. I would have accepted a marriage proposal from Roger Daltrey on the spot. I went to all of their shows in San Francisco and some in L.A. That was as close as I got to being a groupie. -- Jennifer Egan
It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like 'Goon Squad' could win an award like that. It's such an iconic honor. I think what the Pulitzer means to me is that I'll need to work very, very hard to try to live up to it. -- Jennifer Egan
Her face was fragile and mischievous, pale enough to absorb hues from the world around her-purple, green, pink-like a face painted by Lucian Freud. -- Jennifer Egan
[I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering. -- Jennifer Egan
In Naples, there were kids who were just lost. You knew they were never going to get back to what they'd been, or have a normal life. And then there were other ones who you though, maybe they will. What I'm saying is, we're the survivors. Not everyone is. But we are. Okay? -- Jennifer Egan
The blue, mosquitoey night pushes in from the hotel windows. -- Jennifer Egan
Nowadays I'm more interested in what you'd call 'alternative.' Lately we've been listening to a lot of Mumford & Sons, and Jenny Owen Youngs. I'm also pretty crazy about the Kings of Convenience, a Norwegian band that's been compared to Simon and Garfunkel. -- Jennifer Egan
Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased you, after having experienced a more thrilling or opulent way of life, and finding that you can no longer tolerate them. -- Jennifer Egan
You said you were a fairy princess
You said you were a shooting star
You said we'd go to Bora Bora
Now look at where the fuck we are -- Jennifer Egan
Skin-that smooth plump sweetly fragrant sac upon which life scrawls the record of our failures and exhaustion -- Jennifer Egan
The album's called A to B, right?" Bosco said. "And that's the question I want to hit straight on: how did I go from being a rock star to being a fat fuck no one cares about? Let's not pretend it didn't happen. -- Jennifer Egan
Reach isn't describable in terms of cause and effect anymore: it's simultaneous. -- Jennifer Egan
Howie's troubles were a favorite family topic, and behind the shaking heads and oh it's so sads you could hear the joy pushing right up through because doesn't every family like having one person who's fucked up so fantastically that everyone else feels like a model citizen next to him? -- Jennifer Egan
I'm sorry and I believe in you and I'll always be near you, protecting you, and I will never leave you, I'll be curled around your heart for the rest of your life. -- Jennifer Egan
People define themselves to some degree by the music that they listened to as teens. My mom had Elvis. Me, I had 'The Who' and later punk rock. Kids who came up in the '80s had other songs and bands. It's a way of placing ourselves culturally and temporally. -- Jennifer Egan
Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff ... forms a base on which to build something better. -- Jennifer Egan
She'd risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life. -- Jennifer Egan
It is technically impossible for a man to look better in a Speedo than in swim trunks. -- Jennifer Egan
She was clean: no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, after watching three generations of flaccid tattoos droop like moth-eaten upholstery over poorly stuffed biceps and saggy asses? -- Jennifer Egan
He looks tired, like someone walked on his skin and left footprints. -- Jennifer Egan
A sense of that kind of narrative movement that we experience online could have been in my mind easily, though not consciously. I do rely so much on my unconscious, the way I write my stuff the way I do. I let my unconscious work. I have better ideas that way and more interesting work. -- Jennifer Egan
Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"
usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people. -- Jennifer Egan
Eyebrows have never inflicted a moment of pain on me. -- Jennifer Egan
Even the financial disclosure statements that political bloggers were required to post hadn't stemmed the suspicion that people's opinions weren't really their own. "Who's paying you?" was a retort that might follow any bout of enthusiasm, along with laughter - who would let themselves be bought? -- Jennifer Egan
There are so many things that can take a person somewhere else, but none of those things ever happened to me, -- Jennifer Egan
You can't tell. That's something I'm learning here in N.Y.C: you have no fucking idea what people are really like. They're not even two-faced
they're, like, multiple personalities. -- Jennifer Egan
Don't get me wrong - I enjoy my real life, but I feel about it much the way I do about New York City, my chosen and adored home: I'm always happy to leave, and I'm always happy to come back. -- Jennifer Egan
I wonder what Proust would have made of our present-day locus of collective fantasy, the Internet. I'm guessing he would have seized on its wistful aspect, pointing out gently and with wry humor that much of what beguiles us is the act of reaching for what isn't there. -- Jennifer Egan
I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band. -- Jennifer Egan
I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene that we were part of. So, in a certain way, music cuts through time like almost nothing else. You know, it makes us feel like we're back in an earlier moment. -- Jennifer Egan
Sasha tipped back her head to look at him. She made a point of doing this now and then, just to remind Coz that she wasn't an idiot - she knew the question had a right answer. She and Coz were collaborators, writing a story whose end had already been determined: she would get well. -- 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 want or need, and I'll find a way to grind it into dust. -- Jennifer Egan
Bernadette longs for this moment as if it had already passed, as if it could have been. Yet here it is. -- Jennifer Egan
Market Street, a steamy puddle at every curb. We find our way down alleys, our crazy eyes making diamonds of the shattered glass that covers the streets and sidewalks. Nothing touches us. We float under the orange streetlamps. -- Jennifer Egan
This vision tumbled over Phoebe with the force of revelation: she would stand somewhere and look back, she would live a life. -- 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 is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out. -- Jennifer Egan
NICOLE CULLEN Long Tom Lookout -- Jennifer Egan
Vinegar: that's what fear smells like. -- Jennifer Egan
He gestured at the girl I'd been dealing with, whose carefree smile could be roughly translated as: 'He's officially not my problem anymore.' I gave her a wink whose exact translation was: 'Don't be so sure, darling. -- Jennifer Egan
We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line of bullshit back so you can write a major line of bullshit and be paid for it. -- Jennifer Egan
He sensed between them an understanding too deep to articulate: the unspeakable knowledge that everything is lost. -- 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. -- Jennifer Egan
What lists and awards don't measure - and I feel this strongly - is the lasting value of any work of art. They're a snapshot of a moment, and one should always consider their judgments in that context. -- Jennifer Egan
I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest. -- Jennifer Egan
Ted shrank from these youths, though he was six foot four and weighed in at two hundred thirty, with a face that looked innocuous enough in the bathroom mirror but often prompted colleagues to ask him what was the matter. -- Jennifer Egan
After my parents died, it took me months before I could carry on a conversation with someone who had not known them, who expected me to be young and sparkling and untouched by grief. -- Jennifer Egan
She wanted the city to be full of exclusive places turning people away, as long as they always accommodated her. It didn't work like that. What a stupid place to live - stretched thin, overbooked, sold out in advance. -- Jennifer Egan
It made me alert, like someone had scrubbed mint all over my skin. I'd walk into that stinking, miserable prison and for the next three hours, a wise and beautiful woman would float out of the wreckage of my life, and her words and thoughts and tiniest movements were precious. -- Jennifer Egan
And see those metaphors 'up front' and 'out in the open' are part of a system we call atavistic purism. AP implies the existence of an ethically perfect state which not only doesn't exist and never existed but it's usually used to shore up the prejudices of whoever's making the judgments. -- Jennifer Egan
Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young. -- Jennifer Egan
Sure, everything is ending," Jules said, "but not yet. -- Jennifer Egan
The most beautiful warrior, who has scar tissue designs coiled like railroad tracks over the rigorous architecture of his chest and shoulders and back. -- Jennifer Egan
The sound of the wind against the sides of the house is exactly like the sound of wolf fur against cardboard. -- Jennifer Egan
I hope to keep writing journalism as long as I write fiction; it's afforded me such amazing adventures and opportunities. It does take a lot of time, so it's hard to do both at once, but I try to do a big journalism piece every couple of years, and I'll hopefully continue with that. -- Jennifer Egan
I sensed immediately that he'd once been overweight. He moved with a fat person's tiptoey apology. -- 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 actually wrote to a number of archeology departments and offered up my services. -- Jennifer Egan
I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love ... Even if it turns out not to be real. -- Jennifer Egan
Knowing all of this makes us one step closer to being real, but not completely. When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know it's happened? -- Jennifer Egan
But Phoebe loved her mother best as she was now, wistful, out-of-step, her laugh tinged always with sadness, as if things were only funny in spite of themselves. -- Jennifer Egan
It wasn't depression, exactly; more a weird, restless pressure that made me wander the house late at night, opening the best bottles of wine in our cellar and drinking them alone while I channel-surfed along the forgotten byways of cable TV. -- Jennifer Egan
I understood that expensive shirts looked better than cheap shirts. The fabric wasn't shiny, no - shiny would be cheap. But it glowed, like there was light coming through from the inside. It was a fucking beautiful shirt, is what I'm saying -- Jennifer Egan
You can do it alone. But it's going to be so much harder. -- Jennifer Egan
I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance. -- Jennifer Egan
'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years. -- Jennifer Egan
In the case of 'Goon Squad,' which sold slowly for a long time despite the good reviews, those 'best of 2010' lists were pivotal, and made the book really sell. -- Jennifer Egan
See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. "It's mine. -- Jennifer Egan
I was on a very bumpy plane ride, an overnight flight. I was so miserable, and I pulled out 'David Copperfield,' and I forgot how scared and tired I was, and I thought, 'This is what reading should be.' I'm utterly transported out of my current situation. -- Jennifer Egan
'Look at Me' started with Rockford, Illinois and New York and the question of how much image culture was changing our inner lives. That's an abstract idea; you don't think that's going to be a rocking work of fiction, but it seemed to fuse in a way that was interesting. -- Jennifer Egan
Then tell them, faintly, 'I heard screaming'. Men with a history of violence live in fear of retribution. -- Jennifer Egan
We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well. -- Jennifer Egan
At the end of an evening, her women friends would hug her, or a friend's husband might slip his arm around her waist to kiss her, just a little too suggestively, and the coldness in her would respond, I don't give a damn if I ever see any of you again. -- Jennifer Egan
Some mornings ... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished. Everything went past without me. -- Jennifer Egan
Rich children are always blond, Jocelyn goes. It has to do with vitamins. -- Jennifer Egan
Noreen didn't speak, and as the minutes passed she seemed to fade into the rummaging breeze and chatter of insects, as if the night itself were alive. -- Jennifer Egan
Das mine!' protested Ava, Bennie's daughter, affirming Alex's recent theory that language acquisition involved a phase of speaking German. She snatched a plastic skillet away from his own daughter, Cara-Ann, who lurched after it, roaring, 'Mine pot! Mine pot! -- Jennifer Egan
The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Don't listen to them - listen to me. And I know that Lou is one of those shitheads. But I listen. -- Jennifer Egan
He hugs her to him. When Charlie was little he did this all the time, but as she grows older it happens less. Her father is warm, almost hot, his heartbeat like someone banging on a heavy door. -- Jennifer Egan
They were not permitted to so much as knock upon the door to the room in which he thought and wrote about art, but ted hadn't found a way to keep them from prowling outside it, ghostly feral creatures drinking from a pond at moonlight, their bare feet digging in the carpet ... -- Jennifer Egan
Redemption, transformation
God how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn't everyone? -- Jennifer Egan
I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. -- Jennifer Egan
And it was only as he rose from the bed, his body illuminated by the colored lights of the city, that I caught the glint of calculation behind his eyes, a cold, blank set to his face. His shadow self, and not a nice one. -- Jennifer Egan
A weird sequence of weather events had left a thin skin of ice around every tree and branch and twig. Each time the wind blew, a splintery groan issued from all directions at once. -- Jennifer Egan
And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished. -- Jennifer Egan
With an earnestness that would be laughable in a person who wasn't from Wisconsin. -- Jennifer Egan
My last novel, 'The Keep,' was very explicitly technological, about the quality of living in a state constantly surrounded by disembodied presences, and I was thinking very much about the online experience. -- Jennifer Egan
This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words. -- Jennifer Egan
When I was little, I wanted to be a doctor. I was really interested in gore. My grandfather was an orthopedic surgeon and he had a lot of books in his library that I would just pore over. A lot of them had really horrible pictures of deformities. -- Jennifer Egan
If you've been around as long as I have, watching the literary scene, then you know that who's in and who's out changes by the year. It's really a very fluid situation that requires that the person who is having the good luck now isn't having it a year or two from now. -- Jennifer Egan
If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you. -- Jennifer Egan
I know I'm famous and irresitible - a combination whose properties closely resemble radioactivity - and I know that you in this room are helpless against me. -- Jennifer Egan
The girls looked aghast. I watched them cast baleful looks their mother's way, and saw, in their silky, seamless faces, the thick patina so many years of privilege had left behind. Suddenly I was enraged - enraged at both of them for not knowing what these privileges had cost. -- Jennifer Egan
Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work. -- Jennifer Egan
A swell of gratitude and appreciation for his assistant, as opposed to the murderous rage he felt toward the rest of his staff -- Jennifer Egan
That we have some history together that hasn't happened yet. -- Jennifer Egan
They resumed walking. Alex felt an ache in his eyes and throat. "I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't."
Bennie glanced at him, a middle-aged man with chaotic silver hair and thoughtful eyes. "You grew up, Alex," he said, "just like the rest of us. -- Jennifer Egan
Soiled, forgotten coats of arms were carved above their massive doorways, and these unsettled Ted: such universal, defining symbols made meaningless by nothing more than time. -- Jennifer Egan
Mindy felt a jolt of attraction roughly akin to having someone seize her intestines and twist. -- Jennifer Egan
Now there are permanent gray smudges in Scotty's vision. He says he likes them
actually, what he says is: "I consider them a visual enhancement." We think they remind him of his mom. -- Jennifer Egan
It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth. -- Jennifer Egan
The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh. -- Jennifer Egan
...water laughing softly down a black stone wall. -- Jennifer Egan
We're the survivors. Not everyone is. But we are. -- Jennifer Egan
CRAIG DAVIDSON Medium Tough -- Jennifer Egan
Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself. -- Jennifer Egan
You can only write regularly if you're willing to write badly. You can't write regularly and well. One should accept bad writing as a way of priming the pump, a warm-up exercise that allows you to write well. -- Jennifer Egan
A frenzy of activity that had mostly led him in circles: wasn't that a fairly accurate description of lust? -- Jennifer Egan
I think, The world is actually huge. That's the part no one can really explain. -- Jennifer Egan
That's what death is, Danny thought: wanting to talk to someone and not being able to. -- Jennifer Egan
So this is it what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty. -- Jennifer Egan
Lying perfectly still, they would gaze at each other in thick exhaustion and nothing would seem to divide them: they could float inside each other freely as fish drifting through windows of underwater castles. -- Jennifer Egan
One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling. -- Jennifer Egan
Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff. -- Jennifer Egan
Bennie has light brown skin and excellent eyes, and he irons his hair in a Mohawk as shiny black as a virgin record. -- Jennifer Egan
and the question is, which one is really "you, -- Jennifer Egan
years. In fact the whole apartment, which six years ago had seemed like a way station to some better place, had ended up solidifying around Sasha, gathering mass and weight, until she felt both mired in it and lucky to have it - as if she not only couldn't move on but didn't want to. -- Jennifer Egan
Power is like that; everyone feels it at once. -- Jennifer Egan
They must have looked like traveling companions, Phoebe thought, possibly even a couple. She noticed her voice leaning into laughter, how she tossed her head, each tiny gesture like the sweet ache of a muscle craving exercise. -- Jennifer Egan
Being somewhere but not completely: that was home for Danny ... All he needed was a cellphone or I-access, or both at once, or even just a plan to leave wherever he was and go someplace else really really soon. -- Jennifer Egan
Sometimes I imagine myself looking back on right now and I think like where will I be standing when I look back Will right now look like the beginning of a great life or ... or what -- Jennifer Egan
I'm like America " he said.
Stephanie swung around to look at him unnerved. "What are you talking about " she said. "Are you off your meds "
"Our hands are dirty " Jules said. -- Jennifer Egan
I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't. -- Jennifer Egan
The way that Dickens structured his books has a form that we most readily recognize now from, say, the great T.V. series, like 'The Wire' or 'The Sopranos.' There's one central plot line, but then from that spin off all kinds of subplots. -- 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 be easier if you didn't exist. -- Jennifer Egan
They were snobs or idiots or both ... yet she was inexplicably crushed by their coldness. -- Jennifer Egan
The river runs wide and passive in sunlit stretches, then fast and bawdy with whitewater rapids. -- Jennifer Egan
The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the song does actually end, because every song ends, obviously, and THAT. TIME. THE. END. IS. FOR. REAL. -- Jennifer Egan
Even the most secure houses achieve, in deep night, a state of relative unconsciousness. -- 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 pave his roads? -- 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 that?" "They're collecting moonlight," Dad says, and I remember: it's weaker, but we use it. -- Jennifer Egan
STEPHEN O'CONNOR Next to Nothing -- Jennifer Egan
Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you. -- Jennifer Egan
Now that Scotty has entered the realm of myth, everyone wants to own him. And maybe they should. Doesn't a myth belong to everyone? -- Jennifer Egan
Time's a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?" Scotty shook his head. "The goon won. -- Jennifer Egan
See how everything now is precious, how someday I'll know I was lucky to be here. -- Jennifer Egan
Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can. -- Jennifer Egan
I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I do that is to bypass the thinking part of me and get to the more unconscious part, which is where all the good ideas seem to be. -- Jennifer Egan
I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand ... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider. -- Jennifer Egan
But a story was invisible, infinite, it had no size or shape. Information. It could fill the world or fit inside a fingernail. -- Jennifer Egan
There are things you're just positive will happen to you. Then there's that second when you realize, Jesus Christ. Maybe they won't. -- Jennifer Egan
I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense. -- Jennifer Egan
She gave up the rest. The relief was physical, like releasing a long tight breath that had crowded her lungs for too long, letting it go because it was stale, the oxygen was gone. -- Jennifer Egan
Time's a goon right? Isn't that the expression? -- Jennifer Egan
The monkey's face had more emotions than a human's: curiosity, pity, exhaustion, like he'd already seen too much. Danny had to look away. -- Jennifer Egan
I'm just interested in serialization in fiction. I'm fascinated by it. I love the 19th-century novels. I'm interested in ways to bring that back to fiction. -- Jennifer Egan
She looks like someone I want to know, or maybe even be. -- Jennifer Egan
All her excitement had seeped away, leaving behind a terrible sadness, an emptiness that felt violent, as if she'd been gouged. -- Jennifer Egan
I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real? -- Jennifer Egan
It was the silliest victory of her entire life. -- Jennifer Egan
The sky above the buildings outside their apartment windows is the color of a dusty chalkboard, and the light coming down onto the street is exactly the color of boredom. -- Jennifer Egan
When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know if it's happened? -- Jennifer Egan
What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it. -- Jennifer Egan
I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget. -- Jennifer Egan
If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing. -- Jennifer Egan
The answers were maddeningly absent - it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back. -- Jennifer Egan
What I Suddenly Understand
My job is to make people uncomfortable. + I will do it all my life.
> My mother, Sasha Blake, is my first victim. -- Jennifer Egan
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I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life. -- Jennifer Egan
Underneath that I'd said something else: we were both a couple of asswipes, and now only I'm an asswipe; why? And underneath that, something else: once an asswipe, always an asswipe. -- Jennifer Egan
Jules turned to her, incredulous. 'Do you socialize with Republicans?'
'It happens, Jules. -- Jennifer Egan
No one is waiting for me. In this story, I'm the girl no one is waiting for. -- Jennifer Egan
Kind of like saying 'no offense' when you've just said something offensive? -- Jennifer Egan
Oh we'll know each other forever, Bix says. The days of losing touch are almost gone. -- Jennifer Egan
Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity. -- Jennifer Egan
There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing. -- Jennifer Egan
The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age. -- Jennifer Egan
Hindsight creates the illusion that your life has led you inevitably to the present moment. -- Jennifer Egan
But it was another girl, young and new to the city, fiddling with her keys. -- Jennifer Egan
I don't want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art. -- Jennifer Egan
At the beginning he'd thought of his style as being his essence, the perfect expression of who he was inside, but lately the styles had started to feel like disguises, distractions Danny could move around behind without being seen. 27 -- Jennifer Egan
I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, 'I'm going to ace this.' It's just not who I am. -- Jennifer Egan
It began the usual way, in the bathroom of the Lassimo Hotel. -- Jennifer Egan
There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to. -- Jennifer Egan
The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material. -- Jennifer Egan
Real computers scared me; if you can find Them, then They can find you ... -- Jennifer Egan
That's factually crazy... -- Jennifer Egan
I turn to contemporary fiction seeking a shared awareness with the writer of the cultural moment we both occupy, its peculiar challenges. -- Jennifer Egan
Everyone we've lost, we'll find. Or they'll find us. -- Jennifer Egan
In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset. -- Jennifer Egan
And it's all kind of moving and sweet except that you're not completely there - a part of you is a few feet away, or above, thinking, -- Jennifer Egan
Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; -- Jennifer Egan
And the feeling I had was not of wanting her so much as being surrounded by her, blundering inside her life without having moved. -- 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. -- Jennifer Egan
That's how New York looked: like a gorgeous, easy thing to have, even for me. -- Jennifer Egan
I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." ...
"You grew up, Alex. -- Jennifer Egan
I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question. -- Jennifer Egan
