Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as a psychological reaction to his parents' fighting: his laziness, his overachieving, his tendency to isolate, his tendency to seduce, his hypochondria, his sense of invulnerability, his self-loathing, his narcissism.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Character, Fighting, Self

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.235, Macmillan

• 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.

• I think there's a real connection between acting and writing novels because the way I write characters has a little bit to do with the method acting that I was taught in high school and college.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Real, Writing, School

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

• If I write a character, instead of looking from the outside, like maybe a journalist would, trying to describe them physically and figuring out what kind of things they might be interested in or have in their house, I don't really do it that way. I try to feel what it would be like to be inside this person, to be them.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Writing, Character, House

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

• There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Writing, Character, Acting

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

• Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Memories, Real, Writing

  "Jeffrey Eugenides on writing in C major". Interview with Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. October 29, 2011.

• When I'm creating a character, it's a little bit like what my theater teachers used to tell me about Stanislavsky, like if you're using sense memory to do a scene - if you have to cry in a scene, you try to remember something in your life that made you cry and you use that in order to get the tears.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Teacher, Memories, Character

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

• 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

  Writing, Character, Way

  "Interview: Jeffrey Eugenides on writing in C major". Interview with Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. October 29, 2011.

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

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Character, Emotion, Reader

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

• I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Writing, Character, Thinking

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

• 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

  Creativity, Character, People

  "A 'Marriage Plot' Full Of Intellectual Angst". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 11, 2011.

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