Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• 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.

• Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. Then too there were lots of weddings in Wharton and Austen. There were all kinds of irresistible gloomy men.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Reading, Men, Hands

  "The Marriage Plot: A Novel". Book by Jeffrey Eugenides, 2011.

• Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Reading, Writing, Novelists

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

• Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Reading, Solitary Life, Voice

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

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