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Put Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it…
- 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…
- 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…
- It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that…
- Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after.
- In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by…
- We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.
- Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the…
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