Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

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

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

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.

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.