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Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan
American Novelist
Born: Sep 7, 1962
Book Me Think Time Writing You
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
I write with pen and paper, my first draft, on legal pads. Jennifer Egan
Legal First Paper Pen Write Pads Draft
I knew as far back as 2001 that I would write a book called 'A Visit From the Goon Squad,' though I had no idea what kind of book it would be. Jennifer Egan
Book Back Though Visit Kind Would Would-Be No Idea Write Had Knew Idea Squad Far
I never did anything original my whole childhood. I was invisible. Jennifer Egan
Never Invisible Did Childhood Anything Original Whole
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 Writing World Long Spend Totally Ready Discover Done Different Each Novels Different World By The Time
After 9/11, the U.S. seemed vulnerable for the first time in a long time. We were no longer the superpower that no other country could touch. I thought, 'When and how did that dominance begin?' Jennifer Egan
Time Thought Long Long Time First Country Other Seemed Touch Superpower Could Longer Vulnerable First Time How Were Dominance Begin Did After
I often felt like that Mr. Magoo figure in the cartoon, who just wanders through traffic, and somehow it never hits him. I kind of feel that way about my whole childhood: Why do I have a normal life? Jennifer Egan
Life Way Kind Cartoon About Somehow Through Never Feel Like Him Felt Traffic Normal Normal Life Hits Often Childhood Just Figure Who Whole Why
I think playing the glamour card is a disastrous error as a literary writer. Jennifer Egan
Think Writer Glamour Disastrous Error Literary Card Playing
Invention and memory are so close together in the place they occupy in my brain. Jennifer Egan
Together Memory Invention Occupy Brain Close Place
I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. Creating that way seems to generate the most interesting material for me to work with, though. Jennifer Egan
Work Me Reading Way Though Would Seems Outpouring Write Unconscious Generate Steps Most Mess Wrote Read Material Want Anyone Anything Interesting Creating Many Away
To some degree, we're all thinking about the same things. It's the zeitgeist. The trick, in a way, as a writer, is to hope that your interests in some sense link up with the culture around you. Jennifer Egan
Hope You Culture Degree Sense Thinking Way Trick Some About Writer Around Link Up Same Same Things Interests Your Zeitgeist Things
You can research until you're falling asleep, but that still doesn't mean you're really fluent in the material. Jennifer Egan
You Research Fluent Until Material Still Falling Mean Really Asleep
Both my own process and that of the publishing industry are just too slow to do anything other than play catch-up when it comes to anticipating change. Jennifer Egan
Change Slow Own Too Other My Own Both Industry Anticipating Than Just Anything Process Play Publishing
I'm not a technophobe, but I'm pretty old fashioned. Jennifer Egan
Old Pretty Old-Fashioned
I try consciously to keep myself entertained and challenged to not repeat myself at all. Like, when I start a new book, my goal is to pretty much throw out what I've done and try something completely different that I think initially I cannot do. Jennifer Egan
Myself Book Try Think Out Entertained Pretty Something Throw New Like New Book Repeat Goal Done Different Cannot Much Initially Keep Challenged Start
I grew up in the 1970s, and my friends and I felt very keenly that we had missed the '60s. We were bummed out about it. Jennifer Egan
Out About Had Missed Felt Were Bummed Up Friends Very Grew
I love the infinite variety of New York, how it's the epicenter of so many worlds. Jennifer Egan
Love Worlds Variety New How York Infinite New York Many
I love how close New York is to Europe; I love the seasons, and I don't think I could live without them. They're the way I track the passage of time. Jennifer Egan
Love Time Live Think Way Could New Track Without Passage How Close York New York Them Europe Seasons
I think the big lesson I've learned is that it's very hard to write satire in America because almost immediately, whatever you've thought of turns out to come true, or sometimes it already was true. Jennifer Egan
You Satire Sometimes Thought Big Whatever Lesson Think Immediately Out Write True Almost Come Learned Because Very America Turns Hard
There are a lot of writers who find a groove and spend a career mining that vein. I seem to be exactly the opposite. Jennifer Egan
Spend Mining Find Exactly Seem Writers Vein Opposite Lot Groove Who Career
I blurb a lot of books by women, and I'm eager to provide encouragement and support for young women. Jennifer Egan
Women Encouragement Young Books Support Provide Lot Young Women Eager
Criticism is fine and conversation is fine, but the person who's criticizing should know what they're saying and whom they're criticizing. Jennifer Egan
Saying Conversation Criticism Criticizing Fine Know Person Should Whom
I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that's the most dangerous kind of censorship - that's how hegemony works. Jennifer Egan
Dangerous Censorship Think Ways Ourselves Kind Most How Censor Which Hegemony Works
I teach intermittently, and while I enjoy it, I don't find that it's a calling for me. Jennifer Egan
Me Enjoy Find Calling While Teach
I always feel very afraid as I work on books. It's just so hard to write a decent book! Jennifer Egan
Work Book Books Write Feel Always Very Just Decent Afraid Hard
I was not a punk rocker, absolutely not, but I certainly knew quite a lot of them, and I definitely went to the Mab - it was raw, interesting intense scene, so I was very drawn to it, but I was a total outsider. Jennifer Egan
Punk Definitely Drawn Total Scene Absolutely Absolutely Not Outsider Raw Knew Rocker Lot Very Intense Quite Quite A Lot Interesting Them Certainly
I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand. I think if I didn't have a computer, I just couldn't do it. Maybe it's a brain-section issue. Jennifer Egan
Writing Think Computer Nonfiction Issue Hand Maybe Just Even Imagine
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