Jennifer Egan Quotes - Page 5

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• reach isn’t describable in terms of cause and effect anymore: it’s simultaneous.

  Jennifer Egan

  Causes, Simultaneous, Cause And Effect

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.257, Anchor

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• What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.

  Jennifer Egan

  People, Fifty, Realizing

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.257, Anchor

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• a swell of gratitude and appreciation for his assistant, as opposed to the murderous rage he felt toward the rest of his staff

  Jennifer Egan

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Assistants

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.21, Anchor

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• And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished.

  Jennifer Egan

  Essence, Alex, Shells

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• He looks tired, like someone walked on his skin and left footprints.

  Jennifer Egan

  Tired, Skins, Looks

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.43, Anchor

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• Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people.

  Jennifer Egan

  People, Phrases, Republican

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.88, Anchor

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• [I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering.

  Jennifer Egan

  Gathering, Crowds, May

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.271, Anchor

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• When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know if it's happened?

  Jennifer Egan

  Real, Fake, Doe

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.35, Anchor

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• I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.

  Jennifer Egan

  Thinking, Want, Way

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• Being somewhere but not completely: that was home for Danny. . . . All he needed was a cellphone or I-access, or both at once, or even just a plan to leave wherever he was and go someplace else really really soon.

  Jennifer Egan

  Women, Home, Plans

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• And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the first Human Be-In and Monterey Pop and Woodstock. Or it may be that two generations of war and surveillance had left people craving the embodiment of their own unease in the form of a lone, unsteady man on a slide guitar.

  Jennifer Egan

  War, Men, Two

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.271, Anchor

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• '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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• I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly.

  Jennifer Egan

  Block, Writing, Thinking

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• 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

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• We're [writers] all afraid of writing badly, and there are psychological reasons, like the bad interior of ourselves is somehow being revealed, but we all fear that, and you can't write well if you're not willing to write badly. That's why you have to make writing a habit, so it feels normal and not strange.

  Jennifer Egan

  Writing, Normal, Strange

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I guess in my own life, privacy, anonymity, and the mystery of being lost are important. I also feel that people are mysterious and complex no matter what they do, and no matter how hard they try to reveal their own mystery.

  Jennifer Egan

  People, Important, Trying

  "Jennifer Egan’s Novel Approach". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. May 27, 2010.

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• I write fiction longhand. That's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some reason. I don't think I would write it on a typewriter either. I write in a very blind gut instinctive way. It just doesn't feel right. There's a physical connection. And then in nonfiction that's not the case at all. I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand.

  Jennifer Egan

  Writing, Thinking, Technology

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• 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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• Music and time have such an interesting relationship. Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from another moment of your life and it really is like you're still there. That's why the music of our youth ends up being particularly powerful. The coming of age music that you grab a hold of as the symbol or the expression of your independence and hopes for the future and anger and rebellion or whatever it is you're feeling is so powerful for the rest of your life when you hear it.

  Jennifer Egan

  Song, Powerful, Fall

  "Jennifer Egan’s Novel Approach". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. May 27, 2010.

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• 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.

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