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Writing Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.
- I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you have.…
- 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…
- I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't…
- If love were endless, if it were on tap, it wouldn't hit us the way it does. And we certainly wouldn't write about 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…
- I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.
- Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.
- I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about…
- 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…
- The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound…
- 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…
- But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in…
- They're just memories now. Time to write them off.
- She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.
- She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.
- At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal,…
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