#d

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 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. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#alone #before #best #daily #days

The Pulitzer isn't a physical object. You can't hold it in your hand. You get some money ($7,500 in my day), and you get a little Tiffany's paperweight with your name on it and the image of Joseph Pulitzer suspended in the crystal. When people see my 'Pulitzer' (I keep it in my sock drawer), they are pretty amazed at its meagerness. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#crystal #day #drawer #get #hand

I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#back #came #fashion #i #into

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

Greenland is a wonderful country. ↗

— Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark

#greenland #wonderful

So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#experienced #getting #got #had #head

Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#genre #look #movie #movies #old

The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#artist #books #bookstore #colorful #display

They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science fiction, it's more in the Mystery and Crime division and that's another area I'm very interested in. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#also #another #area #asked #crime