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This reads as a statement about writing as necessity, not hobby. It can be taken to mean that the work is tied to mental balance, so absence from it feels like a real loss rather than simple boredom. In a long stretch without making anything, the quote lands on the quiet fear that something essential in the self has gone silent.
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About Jennifer Egan
American novelist and short-story writer
Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short-story writer. She is best known for her fiction, especially the novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, which won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. From 2018 to 2020, Egan served as president of PEN America. Her reputation rests on fiction and on work that has earned major literary recognition.
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Books by Jennifer Egan
A Visit from the Goon Squad
2010
Manhattan Beach
2017
The Invisible Circus
1994
The Candy House
2022
The Keep
2006