Jeffrey Eugenides

I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a way of getting published. I found those years to be among the most difficult of my life.

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up.

With 'Gone Girl,' I sat down, and suddenly the end credits were rolling; you just become so engrossed in it.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.