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This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

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Jennifer Egan
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 7
Novelist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Music
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Five
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Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase meant to be--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people.
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Oh we'll know each other forever, Bix says. The days of losing touch are almost gone.
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Rich children are always blond, Jocelyn goes. It has to do with vitamins.
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I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, I'm going to ace this. It's just not who I am.
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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.
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One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.
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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.
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Sure, everything is ending, Jules said, but not yet.
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I'm always happy, Sasha said. Sometimes I just forget.
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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.
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Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners all over San Francisco. Their hair is tangled and their bare feet are thick and gray as shoes. We're sick of them.
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What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.
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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.
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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.
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A sense of that kind of narrative movement that we experience online could have been in my mind easily, though not consciously. I do rely so much on my unconscious, the way I write my stuff the way I do. I let my unconscious work. I have better ideas that way and more interesting work.
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And the question is, which one is really you.
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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?
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It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?
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I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly.
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If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.
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