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I've tried writing on a computer thinking it would make me more efficient, but if you're writing crummy stuff, being efficient is no help.

~Jennifer Egan

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To some degree, we're all thinking about the same things. It's the zeitgeist. The trick, in a way, as a writer, is to hope that your interests in some sense link up with the culture around you.

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You can research until you're falling asleep, but that still doesn't mean you're really fluent in the material.

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You can start imagining all kinds of things characters would feel, but you have to have a sense of whether those imaginings might be right.

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Both my own process and that of the publishing industry are just too slow to do anything other than play catch-up when it comes to anticipating change.

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I'm not a technophobe, but I'm pretty old fashioned.

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I try consciously to keep myself entertained and challenged to not repeat myself at all. Like, when I start a new book, my goal is to pretty much throw out what I've done and try something completely different that I think initially I cannot do.

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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.

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I love the infinite variety of New York, how it's the epicenter of so many worlds.

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I love how close New York is to Europe; I love the seasons, and I don't think I could live without them. They're the way I track the passage of time.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: September 7th, 1962

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