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Hindsight creates the illusion that your life has led you inevitably to the present moment.
— 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
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
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
We're the survivors. Not everyone is. But we are.
— Jennifer Egan
Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.
— 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
Enemies always attend each other's funerals. I guess it is a way of knowing they won...
— M.C.V. Egan
'Home And Away' was my first big break. I was already a fan of the show, so to suddenly be on it was really good.
— Christopher Egan
Let me understand you. Let me piece you together, hold you together. Let me help you to explain yourself.
— Greg Egan
As much as I like my sister-in-law, I didn't want her two cents. This was a conversation for siblings, with in-laws as invested observers.
— Elisabeth Egan
I've been taking longer to write stories lately.
— Greg 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
My Dad is everywhere and he is nowhere. My world tilts on a different axis, orbiting the sun of my own family- but still, I feel his warmth.
— Elisabeth Egan
STEPHEN O'CONNOR Next to Nothing
— Jennifer Egan
If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.
— Jennifer Egan
Often when she thought she was reading his body
— Greg Egan
The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.
— Greg Egan
No one objects to the notion that every technological civilisation might undergo its own Introdus.
— Greg 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
He was a bridger. He created you to touch other cultures. He wanted you to reach as far as you could.
— Greg Egan
I sensed immediately that he'd once been overweight. He moved with a fat person's tiptoey apology.
— Jennifer Egan
It is technically impossible for a man to look better in a Speedo than in swim trunks.
— Jennifer Egan
Eyebrows have never inflicted a moment of pain on me.
— 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
This vision tumbled over Phoebe with the force of revelation: she would stand somewhere and look back, she would live a life.
— 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
See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. "It's mine.
— Jennifer Egan
Sure, everything is ending," Jules said, "but not yet.
— 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
That's what death is, Danny thought: wanting to talk to someone and not being able to.
— Jennifer Egan
When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know if it's happened?
— Jennifer Egan
A decent man would stand out like a cactus on an ice floe.
— Timothy Egan
Vinegar: that's what fear smells like.
— 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
Hebrew Confederate Cemetery on Shockoe Hill, which is the only Jewish military cemetery in the world outside the state of Israel. The
— Maureen Egan
...water laughing softly down a black stone wall.
— Jennifer Egan
The Pacific Northwest is simply this: wherever the salmon can get to. Rivers without salmon have lost the life source of the area.
— Timothy Egan
How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?""That depends."
"On what?"
"On how I want to feel. — Greg Egan
Time's a goon right? Isn't that the expression?
— Jennifer Egan
You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.
— Timothy Egan
You can do it alone. But it's going to be so much harder.
— Jennifer Egan
The river runs wide and passive in sunlit stretches, then fast and bawdy with whitewater rapids.
— Jennifer Egan
That we have some history together that hasn't happened yet.
— Jennifer Egan
He sensed between them an understanding too deep to articulate: the unspeakable knowledge that everything is lost.
— 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
...our familiar features rinsed in weird adulthood.
— 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
The physical world was one vast, tangled obstacle course of pointless, arbitrary restrictions. We'd
— Greg Egan
What am I? The data? The process that generates it? The relationships between the numbers?
— Greg 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
CRAIG DAVIDSON Medium Tough
— 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
For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.
— Greg 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
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
Sealth died in 1866, one year after the city which bore his name passed an ordinance to ban Indians from town.
— Timothy Egan
When you're a kid, you think you're going to have this deep well of time with your parents when you grow up and you're all on equal footing.
— Elisabeth Egan
What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.
— Jennifer Egan
A frenzy of activity that had mostly led him in circles: wasn't that a fairly accurate description of lust?
— Jennifer Egan
They were snobs or idiots or both ... yet she was inexplicably crushed by their coldness.
— 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
Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.
— Doris 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
