Books Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“Readers are distrustful and, although they accept the rules of the proposed game upon entry, they remain on the lookout for the slightest contradiction…

— Marcos Giralt Torrente

Novelists are too often assumed to write veiled autobiography.

— Lionel Shriver

Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when I would…

— Jonathan Ames

“I am certain that a novelist is someone who attributes a different reality-value to the characters and events of his story than to those…

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs…

— Diane Setterfield

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

— V. S. Naipaul

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

— Terry McMillan

“Writers of literature, if they are real writers, know that their readers are confused about reality and the emotions derived from that reality and…

— Noah Cicero

I suppose most writers are following Twain's advice to tackle what they know, and my own readings habits drew me to writers who seemed…

— Kevin Keck

When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't…

— Peter York

A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it!

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Novelists are people who have discovered that they can dampen their neuroses by writing make-believe. We will keep on doing that no matter what,…

— Kurt Vonnegut