That’s the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose. Jeffrey Eugenides Read Quote
One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos. Jeffrey Eugenides Read Quote
Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be. Jeffrey Eugenides Read Quote
The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it’s a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind. Jeffrey Eugenides Read Quote