Thinking Quotes by Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan

I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.

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Jennifer Egan

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.

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Jennifer Egan

I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.

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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.

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I write fiction longhand. That’s not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some reason. I don’t think I would write it on a typewriter either. I write in a very blind gut instinctive way. It just doesn’t feel right. There’s a physical connection. And then in nonfiction that’s not the case at all. I can’t even imagine writing nonfiction by hand.

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Jennifer Egan

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.

May

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Jennifer Egan

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

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Sometimes

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Jennifer Egan

The average person might articulate them differently, but we all think about interpersonal relationships in one way or another. Writers just express that in different ways and capture it in different ways. To some degree, we’re all thinking about the same things. It’s the zeitgeist. The trick, in a way, as a writer, is to hope that your interests in some sense link up with the culture around you.

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There’s a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours – days, if I have to.

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Self

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