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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 46 quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American novelist and short story writer. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). The Virgin Suicides has been filmed, while Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International Dublin... Read full biography of Jeffrey Eugenides → 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away. 0 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... → 0 I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will. 0 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 -... → 0 One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos. 0 Usually my ideas are small. 0 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... → 0 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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