If you can write any way and it's working out, just bow down in gratitude. Jennifer Egan More Quotes by Jennifer Egan More Quotes From Jennifer Egan It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth. Jennifer Egan teethbad-daysun Oh we'll know each other forever, Bix says. The days of losing touch are almost gone. Jennifer Egan losinggoneforever They were snobs or idiots or both...yet she was inexplicably crushed by their coldness. Jennifer Egan snobcrushedidiot Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years. Jennifer Egan squadwritingyears If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing. Jennifer Egan carestoriespeople It's finished. Everything went past, without me. Jennifer Egan finishedpast I’m sorry and I believe in you and I’ll always be near you, protecting you, and I will never leave you, I’ll be curled around your heart for the rest of your life. Jennifer Egan sorryheartbelieve I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life. Jennifer Egan worstwritingtrying Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can. Jennifer Egan poppieskissingmother I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real? Jennifer Egan experiencecaringreal But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by "identify," I mean see the world through that person's eyes and have a strong sense of the inner logic of their acts and decisions, wacky or wrongheaded though they might be. In that sense, I think there's some of me in all of them. Jennifer Egan strongwritingcharacter Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection. Jennifer Egan cleanproblemperfection But it was another girl, young and new to the city, fiddling with her keys. Jennifer Egan girlkeyscities I know I'm famous and irresitible - a combination whose properties closely resemble radioactivity - and I know that you in this room are helpless against me. Jennifer Egan propertycombinationrooms I picture it like Judgement Day,' he says finally, his eyes on the water. 'We'll rise up out of our bodies and find each other again in spirit form. We'll meet in that new place, all of us together, and first it'll seem strange, and pretty soon it'll seem strange that you could ever lose someone, or get lost. Jennifer Egan judgementeyewater So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset. Jennifer Egan work-outmaythinking That we have some history together that hasn’t happened yet. Jennifer Egan happenedtogether I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be easier if you didnt exist. Jennifer Egan differentwould-betwo We stand there, quiet. My questions all seem wrong: How did you get so old? Was it all at once, in a day, or did you peter out bit by bit? When did you stop having parties? Did everyone else get old too, or was it just you? Are other people still here, hiding in the palm trees or holding their breath underwater? When did you last swim your laps? Do your bones hurt? Did you know this was coming and hide that you knew, or did it ambush you from behind? Jennifer Egan partyhurtpeople I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene that we were part of. So, in a certain way, music cuts through time like almost nothing else. You know, it makes us feel like we're back in an earlier moment. Jennifer Egan teenagesonglove
