Jennifer Egan Quotes

To Me, Fiction Writing At Any Length, In Any Form, Is A Feat Of Radical Compression: Take The Sprawling Chaos Of Human Experience, Run It Through The Sieve Of Perception, And Distill It Into Something Comparatively Miniscule That Somehow, Miraculously, Illuminates The Vast Complexity Around It. I Don't Think About Short Stories Any Differently Than I Do About Novels Or Novellas Or Even Memoirs. But The Smaller Scale Of A Story Is Important; The Distillation Must Be Even More Extreme In Order To Succeed. It Also Must Be Purer; There Is Almost No Room For Mistakes.

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