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One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling. — Jennifer Egan

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words. — Jennifer Egan

Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can. — Jennifer Egan

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

I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love ... Even if it turns out not to be real. — 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

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

Rich children are always blond, Jocelyn goes. It has to do with vitamins. — 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

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

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

Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work. — 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

Redemption, transformation
God how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn't everyone? — Jennifer Egan

and the question is, which one is really "you, — Jennifer Egan

The blue, mosquitoey night pushes in from the hotel windows. — Jennifer Egan

She looks like someone I want to know, or maybe even be. — Jennifer Egan

That's how New York looked: like a gorgeous, easy thing to have, even for me. — Jennifer Egan

I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life. — Jennifer Egan

But it was another girl, young and new to the city, fiddling with her keys. — Jennifer Egan

It was the silliest victory of her entire life. — Jennifer Egan

Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity. — Jennifer Egan

Mindy felt a jolt of attraction roughly akin to having someone seize her intestines and twist. — Jennifer Egan

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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

I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." ...
"You grew up, Alex. — Jennifer Egan

Kind of like saying 'no offense' when you've just said something offensive? — Jennifer Egan

It began the usual way, in the bathroom of the Lassimo Hotel. — Jennifer Egan

Even the most secure houses achieve, in deep night, a state of relative unconsciousness. — Jennifer Egan

Time's a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?" Scotty shook his head. "The goon won. — 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

Oh we'll know each other forever, Bix says. The days of losing touch are almost gone. — 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

[I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering. — Jennifer Egan

Power is like that; everyone feels it at once. — Jennifer Egan

Jules turned to her, incredulous. 'Do you socialize with Republicans?'
'It happens, Jules. — 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

NICOLE CULLEN Long Tom Lookout — Jennifer Egan

CRAIG DAVIDSON Medium Tough — Jennifer Egan

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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

It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth. — Jennifer Egan

Then tell them, faintly, 'I heard screaming'. Men with a history of violence live in fear of retribution. — Jennifer Egan

Real computers scared me; if you can find Them, then They can find you ... — 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

Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff ... forms a base on which to build something better. — Jennifer Egan

I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget. — Jennifer Egan

Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; — Jennifer Egan

Everyone we've lost, we'll find. Or they'll find us. — Jennifer Egan

See how everything now is precious, how someday I'll know I was lucky to be here. — 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

Reach isn't describable in terms of cause and effect anymore: it's simultaneous. — 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

The sound of the wind against the sides of the house is exactly like the sound of wolf fur against cardboard. — Jennifer Egan

What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it. — 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

STEPHEN O'CONNOR Next to Nothing — Jennifer Egan

I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance. — 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

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

A frenzy of activity that had mostly led him in circles: wasn't that a fairly accurate description of lust? — Jennifer Egan

She'd risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life. — Jennifer Egan

They were snobs or idiots or both ... yet she was inexplicably crushed by their coldness. — 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

If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing. — 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'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

I think, The world is actually huge. That's the part no one can really explain. — 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

He looks tired, like someone walked on his skin and left footprints. — Jennifer Egan

Time's a goon right? Isn't that the expression? — Jennifer 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

Vinegar: that's what fear smells like. — 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

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

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

No one is waiting for me. In this story, I'm the girl no one is waiting for. — Jennifer Egan

With an earnestness that would be laughable in a person who wasn't from Wisconsin. — Jennifer Egan

See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. "It's mine. — Jennifer Egan

Sure, everything is ending," Jules said, "but not yet. — 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

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

Skin-that smooth plump sweetly fragrant sac upon which life scrawls the record of our failures and exhaustion — 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

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

...water laughing softly down a black stone wall. — Jennifer Egan

...our familiar features rinsed in weird adulthood. — 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

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

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

Eyebrows have never inflicted a moment of pain on me. — Jennifer Egan

It is technically impossible for a man to look better in a Speedo than in swim trunks. — Jennifer Egan

I sensed immediately that he'd once been overweight. He moved with a fat person's tiptoey apology. — Jennifer Egan