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.

Jennifer Egan

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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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• To respond to people's needs, humanitarian action has evolved from a temporary fix to a long-term safety net.

  

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• In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal.

  

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• Love wasn't possible in just a couple of days. Love could be set in motion quickly, but true love needed time to grow into something strong and enduring. Love was, above all, about commitment and dedication and a belief that spending years with a certain person would create something greater than the sum of what the two can accomplish separately.

  

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• Be yourself. I had this three-week period where I wore this straw fedora. I thought it was what chicks wanted. And then it dawned on me that I was trying to be something that I wasn't, so I took the fedora off. So be yourself.

  

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• Yes, I went the junior-college route, but I was playing at some very good junior colleges.

  

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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.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing