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Very 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…
- When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what…
- I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually…
- 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 write. Somehow in…
- Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one…
- She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.
- Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very promising, for instance,…
- I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like…
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