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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• 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 still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.

  

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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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• The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is.

  

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• The credit/debit card transaction system is antiquated, expensive, and inefficient. There are over nine steps to complete a transaction from the time a customer swipes their card to payment processing, settlement, and when the merchant finally gets paid. Every step along the way costs both the consumer and the vendor in additional fees.

  

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• I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'

  

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• Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.

  

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• Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

  

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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