Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Eganis an American novelist and short story writer who lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Egan's novel A Visit from the Goon Squad won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 September 1962
CountryUnited States of America
pain differences numbers
happened as I listened: I felt pain. Not in my head, not in my arm, not in my leg; everywhere at once. I told myself there was no difference between being “inside” and being “outside,” that it all came down to X’s and O’s that could be acquired in any number of different ways, but the pain increased to a point where I thought I might collapse, and I limped away.
want should scotty
Now that Scotty has entered the realm of myth, everyone wants to own him. And maybe they should. Doesn't a myth belong to everyone?
real fake doe
When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know if it's happened?
real caring experience
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?
perfection problem clean
Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection;
dirty hands talking
I’m like America ” he said. Stephanie swung around to look at him unnerved. “What are you talking about ” she said. “Are you off your meds ” “Our hands are dirty ” Jules said.
father sleep night
At night, the house thick with sleep, she would peer out her bedroom window at the trees and sky and feel the presence of a mystery. Some possibility that included her--separate from her present life and without its limitations. A secret. Riding in the car with her father, she would look out at other cars full of people she'd never seen, any one of whom she might someday meet and love, and would feel the world holding her making its secret plans.
real scared computer
...real computers scared me; if you can find Them, then They can find you...
talking people sound
Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.
gratitude appreciation assistants
a swell of gratitude and appreciation for his assistant, as opposed to the murderous rage he felt toward the rest of his staff
tired skins looks
He looks tired, like someone walked on his skin and left footprints.
art awards consider judgments lasting lists measure snapshot strongly work
What lists and awards don't measure - and I feel this strongly - is the lasting value of any work of art. They're a snapshot of a moment, and one should always consider their judgments in that context.