Jeffrey Eugenides

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

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#moments #must #painful #something #sometimes

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

#book #conscious #first #go #guess

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#autobiographical #because #false #how #know

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

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#had #i #like #literary #more

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

#art #chaos #coherent #feels #important

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#confided #experience #getting #hasn #heads

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

#characters #choose #else #everyone #fair

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

#book #characteristics #different #extremely #fair

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#exists #idea #like #literature #mind

Usually my ideas are small. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#small #usually