Jeffrey Eugenides

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

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When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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I was unemployable when I got out of college. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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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. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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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. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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