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Jennifer Egan Quotes

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 7, 1962

Topics

Best Me Blind Messy First Line

I see teenagers or people who are 21 and think, 'I was an idiot at that age.' I was running around New York like a crazy woman. Thank God I only had three and a half cents to my name. I was too immature to handle success then.

Melissa McCarthy

Success God Age Woman New York Name

If you want someone to show up and execute your script for you, seriously, there are a lot of great people out there. Don't call me.

Great People Me Someone You Want

I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.

Education Father Mother Value

Freddie Gray was a story I followed closer than others, for whatever reason, in this larger narrative of police brutality.

Stephen Malkmus

Police Story Others Gray Reason

All farewells should be sudden, when forever.

Forever Should Sudden

There was never a moment when I was like, 'I'm going to enter the public conversation on the importance of female nudity.'

Chelsea Handler

Moment Conversation Never Going Like

As of right now, I have no desire. I've watched several games and played pickup ball thinking I'd have the feeling I'd like to get back, but I didn't have that feeling. I don't really miss the game.

Game Thinking Back Feeling Desire

But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?

William Scranton

Waiting Long You Information More

I wish I finished music school, because then I feel like I could talk more about the dissonant notes.

Music School Feel Wish Talk More

I always had a hard time communicating my emotions. I'd retreat into my bedroom and listen to music. And when you're a teenager, you're dealing with all these hormones. It's like, 'What are these?'

Sharon Van Etten

Music Time You Emotions Listen Hard

Whenever you are too worried about someone else's approval, that person loses respect for you.

Respect Someone You Person Approval

I'm one of the luckiest people in the world that I was able to do what I fell in love with and be able to make a living doing it.

Love People World Doing Living Able

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