Jeffrey Eugenides

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#attention #care #i #i can #i care

At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#epic #family #give #his #i

A few years ago in Chicago, I rented an office, and I went there every day. For the most part I do work at home in an ugly room. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#chicago #day #every #every day #few

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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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. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#books #going #i #know #lasts

I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to a lot of realism both in the language and in the structure of a book. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#been #book #both #cliches #done

You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#anymore #away #doubts #forward #go

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

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#characters #feel #hopefully #i #life

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

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

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