I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Discussing it later, many of us felt we suffered a mental dislocation at that moment, which only grew worse through the course… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“For our own part, we learned a great deal about the techniques of love, and because we didn't know the words to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
For the eternity that Lux Lisbon looked at him, Trip Fontaine looked back, and the love he felt at that moment, truer… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
When I'm creating a character, it's a little bit like what my theater teachers used to tell me about Stanislavsky, like if… — 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
