“I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that...” — Jennifer Egan Quote

“I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest.”

“That's what death is, Danny thought: wanting to talk to someone and not being able to.”

“I just think that, for my particular personality, feeling slightly invisible is always a help.”

“The first thing I am is a person. I am a woman. And I am part of a nation, the Indian nation. But people either relate to you as an Indian or as a woman. They relate to you as a category. A lot of people don't realize that I am not that different from everyone else.”

“Growing up, I never thought that I would fall into any category. I felt like I didn't fit in anywhere.”

“I'm not successful in Hollywood, and I probably would never be. I think Hollywood has such an interesting model for success, and it creates those successful people. I'm not in that chosen category, but what is successful for me is that, in spite of that, I've been able to work and do the things that I wrote down that I wanted to do and be.”