A Quote by Jennifer Egan

Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.

Jennifer Egan

Quote Topics

Around Gonna Head His Push Right Scotty Shook Time

Quote Author

Jennifer Egan
American - Novelist
Born: September 7, 1962

"Ok you're a goon but what's a goon to a goblin"

Lil Wayne

Proust, my big inspiration for 'Goon Squad,' uses music a lot in his novel, both in terms of plot and structure. I liked the idea of doing the same thing, which is one reason I structured 'Goon Squad' as a record album, with an A side and a B side, that's built around the contrasting sounds of the individual numbers in it.

Jennifer Egan

I'm a dirty south goon - damn right, I ain't no West coast gangster.

Jorge Masvidal

My dad was the original announcer on The Goon Show.'

Christopher Timothy

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.

Jean M. Auel

In the case of 'Goon Squad,' which sold slowly for a long time despite the good reviews, those 'best of 2010' lists were pivotal, and made the book really sell.

Jennifer Egan

I'm a bit of a history goon, and I love all that. Anything that's medieval-based up until, probably, the Tudor period and just after, I'm quite into.

Greg Rutherford

If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad.

Smedley Butler

Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.

David Bowie

Early in my career I had to be a goon to survive. I did everything I had to do and probably some things I shouldn't have.

Matt Barnes

[In hockey] I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.

Eric Gagne

Don't touch my junk, you airport security goon - my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think I'm a Nigerian nut job preparing for my 72-virgin orgy by blowing my johnson to kingdom come?

Charles Krauthammer

I felt unbelievably lucky to have the success I did with 'Goon Squad,' and I also felt the pressure of how fleeting that success can be.

Jennifer Egan

I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.

Jennifer Egan

Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

Jennifer Egan

'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

Jennifer Egan