Best quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides on Life

Checkout quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides on Life

• ‟ I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a way of getting published. I found those years to be among the most difficult of my life.

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• ‟ One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

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• ‟ I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.

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• ‟ I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

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• ‟ I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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