361 Quotes by Jennifer Egan

The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.

I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I actually wrote to a number of archeology departments and offered up my services.

'Look at Me' started with Rockford, Illinois and New York and the question of how much image culture was changing our inner lives. That's an abstract idea; you don't think that's going to be a rocking work of fiction, but it seemed to fuse in a way that was interesting.

I know I'm famous and irresitible - a combination whose properties closely resemble radioactivity - and I know that you in this room are helpless against me.

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

But it was another girl, young and new to the city, fiddling with her keys.

Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can.

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

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.