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Jennifer Egan Quotes

I'm obsessed with the Victorian novel. I can't help it. I feel like the novel then was so powerful and agile in ways I'm not sure it is now.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Feel Help Powerful Now Sure Like

To these economic refugees, maybe we should tell them, 'We'll call you when we need you.'

You Need Refugees Tell Economic

I've never felt that anger is a very powerful emotion.

Anger Powerful Never Emotion Very

You have to treat every day as a new challenge, and you have to remain paranoid, as they say.

Challenge Day Treat You Every Day

The Japanese, despite the trade deficit and their ability to build fabulous automobiles, still think that a guy in a monster suit is all that is needed for a monster movie.

Think Build Fabulous Ability Monster

When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.

Character Doing Done Strange More

You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had to write a book in any of those areas, I don't think it would go well.

Me Writing Book Think You Physics

It was that chemistry. And was the fact that he was president part of that chemistry? I don't know. Maybe. Probably. But it was - I was there because there was chemistry. I wasn't there because, oh, this is the president.

Monica Lewinsky

Know President Chemistry Because He

The writing life is one long, never-ending search for narrative. Well, it's not even a conscious searching. It happens even while you're busy buying groceries and when you're fast asleep. It's a curse.

Life Writing Busy Search Long You

There's not anything, I don't think, that I can do or accomplish.

Think Accomplish I Can Anything

I don't remember not playing games. I think my pre-industry experience is me building LEGO houses and wishing people would go through them.

Brenda Brathwaite

Experience People Me Building Think

'Dierdre And Laney Rob A Train' is sort of an underdog movie.

Ashleigh Murray

Underdog Train Movie Sort Rob

The first Elizabeth film was an absolute travesty historically. It really was sloppy. Things like 'The Other Boleyn Girl' and 'The Tudors,' people's perception is distorted because of these. It matters to me as a historian, because I spend my life trying to get it right.

Life Girl People Me Perception

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