Jennifer Egan Quotes
When I'm not writing, I feel an awareness that something's missing. If I go a long time, it becomes worse. I become depressed. There's something vital that's not happening.
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When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
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I used to shop in ASDA all the time. Every now and then I still go in to get a little salad for lunch.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
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I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
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Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.
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It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
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My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
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For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.
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Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.
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Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.
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There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars.
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As long as there is no proselytism... we must facilitate the partnership between parents and schools.
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When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
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The books are like children in that having written one doesn't make writing the next one any easier, because it's a new set of problems and a new set of challenges with each one, and having dealt with one before means that you now know how to do it.
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
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Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.
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There are some of us who are just born with a more adventurous spirit than others.
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My parents got me a sewing machine for Christmas during my senior year of high school. I made three pieces of clothing and had a fashion show at the end of the year, where we had to wear the clothes that we made. I took it to a whole new level; I made all my friends clothes.
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When I'm not writing, I feel an awareness that something's missing. If I go a long time, it becomes worse. I become depressed. There's something vital that's not happening.
