Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Book, Wanted

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.42, Macmillan

• There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Book, Noise, Speak

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.203, Macmillan

• She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.42, Macmillan

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

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Book, Reading, College

  "Jeffery Eugenides Discusses New Book: ‘The Marriage Plot’". Interview With Madeleine Crum, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2011.

• If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is from the third person perspective of a different character, so you get to see the whole world a little more kaleidoscopically that way. That's traditional narrative manner, and I haven't done a book like that before, but I enjoyed it.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Book, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

• But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in books, and so didn't waste their time with them. Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing, I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Believe, Book, Writing

• Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books spine, grape-colored whales spouted blood around a newspaper item (pasted in) listing arrivals to the endangered spieces list. Six hatchlings cried from shattered shells near an entry made on Easter. Cecilia had filled the pages with a profusion of colors and curlicues, candyland ladders and striped shamrocks.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Easter, Book, Angel

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.29, Macmillan

• To start with, look at all the books.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Book, Looks

  "The Marriage Plot". Book by Jeffrey Eugenides, 2011.

• My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl with wax paper before putting it away in the fridge--even into these prophylactically secure desserts my hair found its way! Jet black hairs wound themselves around bars of soap. They lay pressed like flower stems between the pages of books. They turned up in eyeglass cases, birthday cards, once--I swear--inside an egg Tessie had just cracked. The next-door neighbor's cat coughed up a hairball one day and the hair was not the cat's.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Flower, Book, Cat

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.306, A&C Black

• I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn't want to have normal student accoutrements.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Book, Want, Normal

• 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

  Strong, Memories, Book

  "Jeffery Eugenides Discusses New Book: ‘The Marriage Plot’". Interview With Madeleine Crum, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2011.

• 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

  Suicide, Growing Up, Book

• The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason for writing the book. [...] The other motive is unconscious. There is something deeply psychological and emotional that draws me to the material in the first place.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Book, Writing, Emotional

  Interview with Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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