Jennifer Egan Quotes

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

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• Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Work
  • History
  • Original

• I don't know if I have a favorite color.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Know
  • Color
  • Favorite

• I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Think
  • Taken
  • Will

• I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Change

• It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Game
  • Want
  • Change

• When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Win
  • See
  • Run

• The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Money
  • Free
  • Hurt

• My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Different
  • Literature
  • Humor

• I read so many things because a colleague or a friend will post something, and I'll be able to learn a tremendous amount only because they drew attention to it. So I try to do that for others, and that's the great thing about social media. It's not always a narcissistic cesspool or waste of time.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Time
  • Great
  • Attention

• Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Good
  • Horse
  • Few

• I have so many goals and aspirations that sometimes I lose myself.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Myself
  • Sometimes
  • Goals

• It is all about redundancy. Nature likes to overinsure itself.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Nature

• It seems to me that I may be living too long. Indeed: my nearest relations have all died, and so have some of my best friends, and even some of my best pupils. However, I do not have a reason to complain. I am grateful and happy to be alive, and still be able to continue with my work, if only just. My work seems to me more important than ever.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Work
  • Long
  • Important

• Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • People
  • Die

• The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.

  

  Albert Bushnell Hart
  • Free
  • Wise

• Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000.

  

  Mark Millar
  • American

• I believe the state needs to control hydrocarbons.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Believe
  • Control

• All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

  

  Max Planck
  • Mind
  • Intelligent
  • Matrix

• I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.

  

  Kitty Carlisle

• My home studio is my private instrument for me only. It's not intended to record anyone but me.

  

  Billy Sheehan
  • Home

• Out of limitations, new forms emerge.

  

  Georges Braque
  • Limitations
  • Forms
  • Emerge

• It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they were partly to blame. Why did it happen so? She herself never changed; when she loved anyone, it was for life. She could not understand desertion; it was something so huge, so monstrous that the notion of it made her little heart break.

  

  Emile Zola
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Firsts
  • Balls
  • Forty

• The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

  

  Jennifer Egan