She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Fiction should be specific rather than general, because people are specific.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself. She thought a writer should work harder writing a… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it. — 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
On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I remember liking to write stories pretty early on. In fourth or fifth grade, they would give us the beginning of a… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Then one Sunday morning, before winter break, Abby's boyfriend, Whitney, materialized at their kitchen table, reading something called "Of Grammatology". When Madeleine… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing -… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“There were pencil scrawls and ink stains, dried blood, snack crumbs; and the leather binding itself was secured to the lectern by… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“There’s something about writing that demands a leave-taking, an abandonment of the world, paradoxically, in order to see it clearly. This retreat… — 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
![“The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason for writing the book. [...] The other motive is unconscious. There is something deeply psychological and emotional that draws me to the material in the first place.” quote by Jeffrey Eugenides](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/357/jeffrey-eugenides-462_book_the-ideas-for-my-books-come-about-in-two_541787.jpg)
