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Jennifer Egan Quotes

American - Novelist | September 7, 1962 -

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?

Life Childhood Feel Kind Why Way

I think playing the glamour card is a disastrous error as a literary writer.

Think Glamour Playing Error Writer

Invention and memory are so close together in the place they occupy in my brain.

Together Memory Brain Place Close

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.

Work Me Reading Interesting Creating

I've tried writing on a computer thinking it would make me more efficient, but if you're writing crummy stuff, being efficient is no help.

Me Writing Thinking Help You More

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.

Hope Culture Thinking You Way Same

You can research until you're falling asleep, but that still doesn't mean you're really fluent in the material.

Research You Mean Falling Still

You can start imagining all kinds of things characters would feel, but you have to have a sense of whether those imaginings might be right.

Start Feel You Right Things Sense

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.

Change Process Slow Play My Own Own

I'm not a technophobe, but I'm 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.

Myself Start Book Think Goal New

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.

Friends Missed Out Up Felt Very

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