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Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

Jeffrey Eugenides quotes about reading

American Novelist, Writer April 13, 1960

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It is perhaps in reading a love story (or in writing one) that we can simultaneously partake of the ecstasy and agony of being in love without paying a crippling emotional price. I offer this book, then, as a cure for lovesickness and an antidote to adultery. Read these love stories in the safety of your single bed. Let everybody else suffer. Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of..."
She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read. Jeffrey Eugenides
But it rained all the time, fog covered the fields, and by then he was reading Tolstoy. There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things. A Confession was a book like that. Jeffrey Eugenides
a large contingent of people majoring in English by default. Because they weren't left-brained enough for science, because history was too dry, philosophy too difficult, geology too petroleum-oriented, and math too mathematical--because they weren't musical, artistic, financially motivated, or really all that smart, these people were pursuing university degrees doing something no different from what they'd done in first grade: reading stories. English was what people who didn't know what to... Jeffrey Eugenides
Almost overnight it became laughable to read writers like Cheever or Updike, who wrote about the suburbia Madeleine and most of her friends had grown up in, in favor of reading the Marquis de Sade, who wrote about anally deflowering virgins in eighteenth-century France. The reason de Sade was preferable was that his shocking sex scenes weren't about sex but politics. They were therefore anti-imperialist, anti-bourgeois, anti-patriarchal, and anti-everything a smart young feminist should be... Jeffrey Eugenides
Then one Sunday morning, before winter break, Abby's boyfriend, Whitney, materialized at their kitchen table, reading something called "Of Grammatology". When Madeleine asked what the book was about, she was given to understand by Whitney that the idea of a book being "about" something was exactly what this book was against, and that, if it was "about" anything, then it was about the need to stop thinking of books as being about things. Jeffrey Eugenides
I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own. Jeffrey Eugenides
She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself. She thought a writer should work harder writing a book that she did reading it. Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than..."
She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it. Jeffrey Eugenides
I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from the beginning to get to the end, which is my arrival. Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "I think, especially when you're in college, each book that..."
I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are. Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of..."
Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be. Jeffrey Eugenides
Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights...How wonderful it was when one sentence followed logically from the sentence before!...There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. Jeffrey Eugenides

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