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Jeffrey Eugenides

You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.

— Jeffrey Eugenides war

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 art

I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

— Jeffrey Eugenides reading

The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one.

— Jeffrey Eugenides self

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 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 that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.

— Jeffrey Eugenides book

I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn't want to have normal student accoutrements.

— Jeffrey Eugenides books

I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.

— Jeffrey Eugenides life

The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

— Jeffrey Eugenides writing

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

— Jeffrey Eugenides people

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 self

Usually my ideas are small.

— Jeffrey Eugenides ideas

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'

— Jeffrey Eugenides philosophy

We're all well-acquainted with depression, we all know what the low moods are, but the mania was not something I knew much about. I didn't know that it would make someone dress extravagantly or start to pun, and to stay up and drink.

— Jeffrey Eugenides art

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

— Jeffrey Eugenides life

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 people

I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.

— Jeffrey Eugenides writing

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 English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.

— Jeffrey Eugenides war

It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants.

— Jeffrey Eugenides action

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 life

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.

— Jeffrey Eugenides life

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 seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you.

— Jeffrey Eugenides writing

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 life

It was painful, but sometimes you must have these painful moments where you tear yourself away from something that isn't working.

— Jeffrey Eugenides time

A few years ago in Chicago, I rented an office, and I went there every day. For the most part I do work at home in an ugly room.

— Jeffrey Eugenides art

You can tell when somethings not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it dont go away.

— Jeffrey Eugenides war

You never get over it. But you get to where it doesn’t bother you so much.

— Jeffrey Eugenides you

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