Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better. Jennifer Egan More Quotes by Jennifer Egan More Quotes From Jennifer Egan If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you. Jennifer Egan conquer-the-world inspiration views Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do. Jennifer Egan levels reading writing I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art. Jennifer Egan flames life art I wonder what Proust would have made of our present-day locus of collective fantasy, the Internet. I’m guessing he would have seized on its wistful aspect, pointing out gently and with wry humor that much of what beguiles us is the act of reaching for what isn’t there. Jennifer Egan proust guessing fantasy Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young. Jennifer Egan technology two years Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work. Jennifer Egan nourishment reading interesting I haven’t had trouble with writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, clichéd writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn’t have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments. It seems writer’s block is often a dislike of writing badly and waiting for writing better to happen. Jennifer Egan block writing thinking I'm very interested in the way the Internet has changed teenage life. Obviously it's very different from when I grew up, when there weren't even answering machines, much less computers. I was telling my children this the other day, and the little one said, "Did you have electricity, Mom?" and I was like okay, enough, kid. Jennifer Egan teenage mom children Sometimes I imagine myself looking back on right now and I think like where will I be standing when I look back Will right now look like the beginning of a great life or... or what Jennifer Egan sometimes looks thinking Redemption, transformation--God how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn't everyone? Jennifer Egan redemption transformation worry The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back. Jennifer Egan artist song trying I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget. Jennifer Egan said forget sometimes The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the song does actually end, because every song ends, obviously, and THAT. TIME. THE. END. IS. FOR. REAL. Jennifer Egan music real song There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing. Jennifer Egan metaphor way I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question. Jennifer Egan intellectual ideas needs Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff. Jennifer Egan regularity stuff writing I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, I'm going to ace this. It's just not who I am. Jennifer Egan aces who-i-am thinking I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't. Jennifer Egan work-out mean thinking One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling. Jennifer Egan trouble feelings writing The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material. Jennifer Egan effort lines firsts
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