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Jennifer Egan Quotes

I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you're a realist!

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Writing America You Fast Know Move

Schedules on TV are so tight, and it feels like they get tighter and tighter with every passing year. The idea of asking where your character's come from or where they grew up - you would just get a little bit laughed at.

Character Year You Up Little Asking

Light is a profound degrader of our sleep.

Light Sleep Profound Our

I know Pentatonix. I knew them before they were even a group.

Know Group Even Knew Before Them

But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.

Experience College You Know Years

I think the world is ambivalent about feminism. So I can't blame college students. I think they're reflecting the greater culture's attitude toward feminism. So what I can do is, in ways that are appropriate, advocate for feminism and help the students learn what feminism is about.

Attitude Culture College Blame World

I always wanted everyone to love me, probably because I didn't love myself enough. But now I realize that when you're an artist, you're making the music that's in your head and in your heart, and not for any other reason.

Love Music Heart Myself Me Love Me

I hang out with my grandma, go to sleep at 8:30, and that's it.

Sleep Go Out Hang Grandma

A typical medical practice is like an old-fashioned business which keeps all of its records on paper. It can probably track down any individual transaction if it needs to, but it's basically helpless when it comes to overall measurements of performance. And that's the big problem.

Business Medical Practice Performance

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

Success Be Prepared Ready Fail

What you don't see is scarier than what you do. Categorization is always kind of arbitrary, but people have called 'Preservation' a 'psychological thriller.' To me, psychological thriller basically means 'a horror movie without the blood.'

Christopher Denham

People Me You Blood Kind Horror

When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.

Success Financial You Back Go Big

I'm a gym rat; I love my hour-long afternoon sessions with my trainer.

Love Gym Rat Trainer Afternoon

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