Top 45 Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides

About Jeffrey Eugenides

These are some quotes by American author Jeffrey Eugenides Novelist, who was born on April 13, 1960.

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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 will pick and choose.

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 will pick and choose.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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 lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

Jeffrey Eugenides

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling 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, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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