Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes & Sayings
45 most famous Jeffrey Eugenides quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 64 year old American novelist born on Apr 13, 1960.
“You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.”
“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.”
“I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.”
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