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Jennifer Egan

American

September 7, 1962

Novelist

One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.

Tags: About Get Myself

'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

Tags: Me About Years

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.

Tags: Think Just Who

In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

Tags: Work Think Out

There's something very strange about associating me with that prize. I had hoped for it in a more directed way as a journalist. Somehow as a journalist you know there are Pulitzers out there and you can work hard and get one. To win it for Fiction seems unbelievable.

Tags: Work You Me

When I first had a child, I really had a hard time trying to figure out how it was all going to fit together. Because I felt like, when I was with him, I wanted to be writing and I should be writing. And when I was writing, I felt like I should be with him, and wanted to be with him. So I was unhappy a lot.

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