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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

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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.

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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.

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One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 13th, 1960

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