Jennifer Egan Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• 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.

  Jennifer Egan

  Reading, Writing, Culture

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. May 12, 2011.

• The average person might articulate them differently, but we all think about interpersonal relationships in one way or another. Writers just express that in different ways and capture it in different ways. 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

  Thinking, Average, Degrees

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2016.

• I don't think that all girls seek the influence of older men, but I think girls whose fathers are absent or recessed from their lives often do. And honestly, when I was growing up, fathers were generally pretty absent from their children's lives. We didn't see a lot of them. That may be something that has genuinely changed for the better in our culture: men are more present for their children now that more women are working.

  Jennifer Egan

  Girl, Children, Growing Up

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• 'Look at Me' started with Rockford, Illinois and New York and the question of how much image culture was changing our inner lives. That's an abstract idea; you don't think that's going to be a rocking work of fiction, but it seemed to fuse in a way that was interesting.

  Jennifer Egan

  New York, Thinking, Ideas

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