I have a very beautiful room in my house... It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
If I write a character, instead of looking from the outside, like maybe a journalist would, trying to describe them physically and… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Though at this moment she felt abused, abandoned, and ashamed of herself, Madeleine knew that she was still young, that she had… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Only the Lisbon house remained dark, a tunnel, an emptiness, past our smoke and flames.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“She had just started living like a grown-up and she'd never felt more vulnerable, frightened or confused in her life.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“The window was still open,” Mr Lisbon said. “I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not momentous enough.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Within five minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under the chin,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“I don't approve of women driving, mind you. And now they get to vote!" He grumbled to himself. "Remember that play we saw ("The… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
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… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
