KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides

Showing 1-10 of 45 Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.

~Jeffrey Eugenides

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Jeffrey Eugenides

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.

~Jeffrey Eugenides

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 13th, 1960

Links

Find Jeffrey Eugenides on Amazon

Related Authors

Richard Bach
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ernest Hemingway
Jack Kerouac
H. P. Lovecraft
Chuck Palahniuk
Gore Vidal
Elie Wiesel

Popular Authors

Sandra Cisneros Christopher Columbus Hippocrates Steve Irwin Theodore Roosevelt Rumi Eckhart Tolle Bell Hooks

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1694 - Voltaire

1768 - Friedrich Schleiermacher

1787 - Bryan Procter

1863 - Arthur Quiller-Couch

1870 - Alexander Berkman

1886 - Harold Nicolson

1889 - Hugh Kingsmill

1898 - Rene Magritte

1904 - Coleman Hawkins

1907 - Jim Bishop

Birthdays on November 21st
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Birthday Environmental Experience Health Independence Legal Money Smile