Jennifer Egan Quotes

I spend so long writing each of my novels that by the time I'm done with one, I'm ready to discover a totally different world.

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• I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Enough
  • Author
  • Role

• It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Me
  • Always
  • Literature

• In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Young
  • Ready
  • Benefits

• You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Isolation

• I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Women
  • Love
  • Dress

• As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Mind
  • Enemy
  • Stupid

• When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • School
  • Thing
  • Athletics

• Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Time
  • Together
  • Game

• I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Happy

• My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• All things considered, defending our borders by building a fence to keep out people is a necessity. There is no more humane alternative when it comes to protecting ourselves. We must act humanely, within the law, while honoring transparency, but with firm resolve.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Law
  • Building

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

  

  Walt Disney
  • True
  • Courage
  • Dreams

• I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Skin
  • Routines
  • Moisture

• It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Important
  • Needs
  • Story

• Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • People
  • Love
  • Give

• I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Women

• I've always wanted to do a lot of things.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Always
  • Things
  • Wanted

• Having been kept pretty strict in prep schools, I guess I couldn't cope with all the freedom at Yale. I had a wild, wonderful time, got abysmal grades and was bounced out in my freshman year. I then came back the following fall as a repeating freshman, lasted until April and got bounced out again - for the same reason.

  

  Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Freedom

• I like the idea about somewhere there being a world... somewhere there's a world that I don't know about. But also, that somewhere, there was once something that disappeared.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • World
  • Ideas
  • Knows

• I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Important
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Done
  • Nothing
  • Over

• I spend so long writing each of my novels that by the time I'm done with one, I'm ready to discover a totally different world.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Time
  • World
  • Different