Jeffrey Eugenides
"That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose."
Jeffrey Eugenides
"It was painful, but sometimes you must have these painful moments where you tear yourself away from something that isn't working."
Jeffrey Eugenides
"But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can."
Jeffrey Eugenides
"I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life."
Jeffrey Eugenides
"One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos."
Jeffrey Eugenides
"You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away."
Jeffrey Eugenides
"What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself."
Jeffrey Eugenides
"I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by."
Jeffrey Eugenides
"I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily."
Jeffrey Eugenides
"A few years ago in Chicago, I rented an office, and I went there every day. For the most part I do work at home in an ugly room."
Jeffrey Eugenides
"I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early."
Jeffrey Eugenides
"Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be."
Jeffrey Eugenides
"The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind."
Jeffrey Eugenides
"Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience."
Jeffrey Eugenides
"I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life."
Jeffrey Eugenides
"One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality."
Jeffrey Eugenides
"I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are."
Jeffrey Eugenides
"There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things."
Jeffrey Eugenides
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