Citas de 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

  Inspiration, Views, Conquer The World

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.78, Anchor

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• 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

  Reading, Writing, Levels

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• Vivimos en un momento y una cultura en los que la lectura está realmente en peligro. Pero no se puede escribir bien si no se lee bien.

  Jennifer Egan

  Reading, Writing, Culture

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. May 12, 2011.

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• No he tenido problemas con el bloqueo del escritor. Creo que se debe a que en mi proceso escribo muy mal. Mis primeros borradores están llenos de tambaleos, de clichés, de agitación. Escritura que no tiene una buena voz o ninguna voz. Pero luego hay momentos buenos. Parece que el bloqueo del escritor es a menudo una aversión a escribir mal y esperar a escribir mejor.

  Jennifer Egan

  Bloqueo, Escritura, Pensamiento

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• 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

  Writing, Stuff, Regularity

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• I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.

  Jennifer Egan

  Sometimes, Forget, Said

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.5, Anchor

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• 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

  Life, Art, Flames

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.98, Anchor

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• Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work.

  Jennifer Egan

  Reading, Interesting, Nourishment

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• Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.

  Jennifer Egan

  Talking, People, Sound

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• 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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• Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better.

  Jennifer Egan

  Writing, Stuff, Form

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• That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.

  Jennifer Egan

  Writing, Opposites, Way

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• 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

  Tecnología, Años, Dos

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• Está siendo un mal día, un día en el que el sol parece un diente.

  Jennifer Egan

  Mal Día, Dientes, Sol

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.66, Anchor

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• 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

  Way, Metaphor

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• Mentimos. Eso es lo que hacemos. Me estás vendiendo una línea de mierda y quieres que te venda una línea de mierda de vuelta para que puedas escribir una mayor línea de mierda y que te paguen por ello.

  Jennifer Egan

  Lying, Writing, Bullshit

  Jennifer Egan (2009). “Look at Me: A Novel”, p.98, Anchor

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• Redemption, transformation--God how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn't everyone?

  Jennifer Egan

  Worry, Redemption, Transformation

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.14, Anchor

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• 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

  Guessing, Fantasy, Proust

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• Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased you, after having experienced a more thrilling or opulent way of life, and finding that you can no longer tolerate them.

  Jennifer Egan

  Way, Circumstances, Tolerate

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.61, Anchor

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• Me interesa mucho la forma en que Internet ha cambiado la vida de los adolescentes. Obviamente es muy diferente de cuando yo crecí, cuando ni siquiera había contestadores automáticos, y mucho menos ordenadores. Se lo estaba contando a mis hijos el otro día, y el pequeño me dijo: "¿Tenías electricidad, mamá?", y yo le dije: vale, ya basta, chaval.

  Jennifer Egan

  Mom, Teenage, Children

  "Jennifer Egan’s Novel Approach". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. May 27, 2010.

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• 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. Before the age of technology, it was also easier to just disappear from the face of the earth.

  Jennifer Egan

  Teenager, Technology, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• 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

  Song, Artist, Trying

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.253, Anchor

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• A veces me imagino a mí mismo mirando hacia atrás en este momento y pienso, ¿dónde estaré parado cuando miro hacia atrás? ¿Parecerá este momento el comienzo de una gran vida o... o qué?

  Jennifer Egan

  Pensar, Mirar, A Veces

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• Nunca he sido tan confiado. No tiendo a pensar, fanfarroneando, que voy a triunfar. Simplemente no soy así.

  Jennifer Egan

  Pensar, Quién Soy, Ases

  "A life in writing: Jennifer Egan" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2011.

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• Creo que lo único que ha cambiado con el tiempo es que me he dado cuenta, como escritor de ficción, de que el hecho de que crea que no va a funcionar no significa que no vaya a hacerlo.

  Jennifer Egan

  Mean, Thinking, Work Out

  "A life in writing: Jennifer Egan". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2011.

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