“It's our job as fiction writers to provide a delight that nothing else...” — Jennifer Egan Quote

“It's our job as fiction writers to provide a delight that nothing else can - to such a degree that people have no choice but to read our work. Now that's a very tall order, if not impossible. But why not try?”

“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.”

“I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.”

“There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.”

“Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.”

“I want to do something very surprising next. I don't know what that is - something that has a high degree of risk.”