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You Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.
- 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 studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old…
- I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years.…
- Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a…
- You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.
- The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound…
- If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do…
- I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching…
- 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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