Jennifer Egan Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.

  Jennifer Egan

  Reading, Writing, Levels

• Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work.

  Jennifer Egan

  Reading, Interesting, Nourishment

• 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.

• I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction I write by hand, because I'm trying to achieve a kind of thoughtless state, or an unconscious instinctive state. 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

  Reading, Writing, Hands

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

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