#elf

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#actually #autobiographical #confused #get #i

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

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

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act. ↗

— Billy Boyd

#acting #direct #find #i #just

What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#character #create #details #huge #i

And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#agree #always #attorney #because #character

I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off up the stairs as soon as the film crew for the show came into the house. She didn't come down for hours. But I have the support of all my brothers and sisters and my neighbours and friends - everyone thinks it's just great. ↗

— Susan Boyle

#brothers #came #cat #come #crew

He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world. ↗

— Anna C. Brackett

#answer #demanding #engaged #great #himself

Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace. ↗

— Raul Julia

#becoming #cigar #everything #fade #fades