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Jennifer Egan Quotes

I spend so long writing each of my novels that by the time I'm done with one, I'm ready to discover a totally different world.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time Writing World Long Ready Done

I figure there's no point in stressing about what's out of my control, and all I can do is make the best of what I've got.

Best Control I Can Out Point Got

For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

Yourself Child Listening Place New

No pharmaceutical company is making money by selling biological knowledge - they make money by selling chemicals. So getting as much of that knowledge as possible into the efficiency of the Web-commerce world is going to make it faster to find those chemicals.

Knowledge Money World Making Money

Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; it's a privately owned space on the Internet.

Space Internet Square Utility Public

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

Music End Way Almost Like Yoga

I've discovered I love the vast landscape a series offers. I tend to write long anyway, so, it turns out, series gives me the perfect vehicle for writing 'large' stories.

Mary E. Pearson

Love Me Writing Landscape Perfect

There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

Jason Alexander

Community Service Think Insane Than

Global traffic has become very networked, very connected.

Dennis Muilenburg

Traffic Connected Become Global Very

I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.

Thought Bad Find Crime Evidence Guy

Somehow, whenever we think about race or blackness in relationship to art, we always come in kind of nervous. We always think someone's about to be punished or accused of something.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Relationship Art Think Someone Kind

I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The Game.'

Work Game Guilty Watch Pleasures

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

God Power Best Blessed Gift Self

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