Jennifer Egan Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.
-
Twitter, Facebook are so different from where I began. It's like a fire that takes off... I'm reading everybody's Twitter.
-
What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
-
People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.
-
I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
-
Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.
-
My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm always reading at least one work of fiction and one work of non-fiction simultaneously. Whatever mood I'm in, there's always a book nearby to suit it.
-
I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
-
There's so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it's reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She's been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.
-
I took this 'how to build computers' course basically because I'm sick and tired of getting ripped off by cheesy computer companies. Software baffles me. I like hardware. I used to change my own oil, and now I want to build my own computer so I can have what I want.
-
I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'
-
Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.
-
If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some ways, 'Gun Machine' is just the culmination of 20 years of reading about guns.
-
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
-
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
-
I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl's very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can't they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?
-
Growing up in Georgia in the southeastern United States, I was always reading and always kept to myself. I never felt isolated, though; I just liked being alone.
-
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
-
I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it.
-
I'm tired of screwing up. I'm tired of being down. I'm tired of myself. I'm tired of bein' down.
-
I have two measures every time I look at a bill. Is this in the best interests of the hardworking taxpayers in Northeast Ohio and the 14th District, and will this stimulate or encourage the economy to work?
-
Eating is perhaps the most direct way we acknowledge or deny the sacredness of the earth.
-
With 'Sherry,' we were looking for a sound. We wanted to make the kind of mark that, if the radio was playing one of our songs, you knew who it was immediately. But I didn't want to sing like that my whole life.
-
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.
