Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

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

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

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

Usually my ideas are small. - Jeffrey Eugenides

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

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

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

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