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Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure… it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.
Quote by -Robert Schuller
Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.
Quote by -Haruki Murakami
Comparison is painful. Don't be cowed by other people's pretty pictures. When you feel unimpressive, or irrelevant, that has nothing to do with what you're actually capable of.
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
When I pick up a book that's, you know, wreathed in laurels, I expect a lot, and that doesn't give the book its best chance to shine.
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
I think the big lesson I've learned is that it's very hard to write satire in America because almost immediately, whatever you've thought of turns out to come true, or sometimes it already was true.
Quote by -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, cliched writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn't have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments.
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest.
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
It's not that I sit down and write great stuff without thinking, not at all. Most of it is terrible. But the stuff that feels fun and fresh to me tends to happen fairly unthinkingly.
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
I think a playful critique is good for all of us, and that's basically how I see satire functioning. But I'm not interested in a kind of contemptuous satirical vision; I try always, even when I'm knowingly being satirical, to also be humane, but I mean, let's face it: there's plenty in American life to make fun of, and we all participate in it.
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
I have a hatred of familiarity. If I feel like I am doing something I've done before, it feels old and done. I feel I have no choice but to strike out in directions that feel new - anything less just doesn't seem worth it.
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
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.
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
Remaining a pop phenomenon for 20 years without dying or lapsing into self-parody is quite a feat.
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
My first attempt at writing a novel was horrible. I had to throw it away. But I stuck with the idea, which is what became 'The Invisible Circus.'
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
I grew up in the '70s, when people talked on the phone - and just talked more. I remember the phone was the epicenter of our house. I spent hours every evening as a teenager waiting for the phone to ring and talking to my friends.
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
I grew up in the 1970s, and my friends and I felt very keenly that we had missed the '60s. We were bummed out about it.
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
I'm embarrassed to say this, but I shy away from memoirs. My feeling is always that I'm saving them for later, so I guess that means I'll reach a point when I read nothing else.
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
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.
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
If you read novels of the 19th century, they're pretty experimental. They take lots of chances; they seem to break a lot of rules. You've got omniscient narrators lecturing at times to the reader in first person. If you go back to the earliest novels, this is happening to a wild extent, like 'Tristram Shandy' or 'Don Quixote'.
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
I wasn't a kid who wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a doctor. I was kind of morbid. I was really into the body and how it could go wrong. I wanted to dig up bodies from the graveyard.
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
Criticism is fine and conversation is fine, but the person who's criticizing should know what they're saying and whom they're criticizing.
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
I love the thriller genre generally. I like murder mysteries and those kinds of adventure stories.
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
I blurb a lot of books by women, and I'm eager to provide encouragement and support for young women.
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you're a realist!
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
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.
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that's the most dangerous kind of censorship - that's how hegemony works.
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
When I first had a child, I really had a hard time trying to figure out how it was all going to fit together. Because I felt like, when I was with him, I wanted to be writing and I should be writing. And when I was writing, I felt like I should be with him, and wanted to be with him. So I was unhappy a lot.
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
It's our job as fiction writers to provide a delight that nothing else can - to such a degree that people have no choice but to read our work. Now that's a very tall order, if not impossible. But why not try?
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
Nowadays I'm more interested in what you'd call 'alternative.' Lately we've been listening to a lot of Mumford & Sons, and Jenny Owen Youngs. I'm also pretty crazy about the Kings of Convenience, a Norwegian band that's been compared to Simon and Garfunkel.
Quote by -Jennifer Egan
The book that is the closest genetically to 'Goon Squad' is 'Look at Me.' It has the futuristic element - although, freakishly, almost every aspect I invented has come to pass in some way, including the terrorist who fantasies about blowing up the World Trade Centre. That was extremely uncomfortable. The book came out on the week of 9/11.
Quote by -Jennifer Egan