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.

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

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

When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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 not determine an exact path in your life.

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 not determine an exact path in your life.

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

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

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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.

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.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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 a certain way for 30 years. And then you had this other gang who was down with the semiotic program. And as a student, you were, in a way, forced to choose which cohort you were going with.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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