Jennifer Egan Quotes & Sayings
48 most famous Jennifer Egan quotes and sayings (novelist). These are the first 10 quotes we have for her.
“It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like 'Goon Squad' could win an award like that. It's such an iconic honor. I think what the Pulitzer means to me is that I'll need to work very, very hard to try to live up to it.”
“We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.”
“I did go on safari in Kenya when I was 17, with my mother, stepfather and little brother, and I kept a careful journal of the experience that was very helpful in terms of my sensory impressions of Africa. I have traveled quite a bit at distinct times in my life, though now that I have kids I've settled down.”
“The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.”
“'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.”
“Proust, my big inspiration for 'Goon Squad,' uses music a lot in his novel, both in terms of plot and structure. I liked the idea of doing the same thing, which is one reason I structured 'Goon Squad' as a record album, with an A side and a B side, that's built around the contrasting sounds of the individual numbers in it.”
“I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same time, I'm less haunted by it than I was as a younger person. I guess that's probably the ideal: to reach a point where you have access to all of your memories, but you don't feel victimized by them.”
“In the case of 'Goon Squad,' which sold slowly for a long time despite the good reviews, those 'best of 2010' lists were pivotal, and made the book really sell.”
“Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.”
“I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.”
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