Jenny Offill

One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, 'Right. Now I understand how this is done.'

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These are some quotes by American author Jenny Offill Author, who was born in 1968.

Quotes by Jenny Offill

Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little chance operation sometimes where I flip through outdated reference books to see if anything will strike me as beautiful or momentous. Library roulette, I call it.

Jenny Offill

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Always the danger for me in life and in art is not to be brave. I am not a naturally brave person. I have to will myself not to hole up in my house and read my life away.

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I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my own personality.

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