"My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that."

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But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by "identify," I mean see the world through that person's eyes and have a strong sense of the inner logic of their acts and decisions, wacky or wrongheaded though they might be. In that sense, I think there's some of me in all of them.

— Jennifer Egan