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Jeffrey Eugenides

I think, especially when you’re in college, each book that you’re reading tends to tell you who you are.

– Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides

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

– Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides

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.

– Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides

I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I’m writing about women, I think I’m writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.

– Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides

If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.

– Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides

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.

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Jeffrey Eugenides

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, ‘Middlesex.’

– Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides

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

Jeffrey Eugenides

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

Jeffrey Eugenides

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

– Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides

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

Jeffrey Eugenides

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

– Jeffrey Eugenides

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