Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

CareTryingLongAttentionI Can

Once I started looking for a record deal, I had a trainer. And the trainer told me that I would never sell a record if I didn't lose weight.

Jill Scott

MeLookingLoseNeverStartedSell

My writing regimen is not very regimented. I tend to be a binge writer, working sometimes in the morning and sometimes all night. When I get going I like to hunch over the keyboard until I feel totally played out.

Jess Walter

MorningWritingNightFeelSometimes

When it comes to love, maturity often gets a bad rap - second love is boring; it's practical. It's what our parents feel for each other.

Jenny Zhang

LoveLove IsMaturityParentsFeel

One of the really fascinating areas is marketplaces that take advantage of mobile devices. Ridesharing is the obvious example, but that's just the start of it, of selling goods and services with lightweight mobile apps.

John Collison

StartSellingTake AdvantageTake

So many of the pleasures of recreational scuba diving don't exist for the deep wreck diver. It's not beautiful scenery for the most part; in fact, it's usually very dark. It's physically burdensome. These guys carry almost two hundred pounds of equipment, and should any of that equipment fail, they risk death.

Robert Kurson

BeautifulDeathDeepSceneryDark

Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book with lightning.

Robert Littell

BookSaidRightLightningMarkYour

People talk to me about celebrities all the time and which ones do I admire, and it's so hard because you can't tell who's doing it for themselves and who hired a stylist.

Michael Bastian

TimePeopleMeDoingYouTalk

I would take my guitar to college and sit for hours in the hills humming to myself.

Mohit Chauhan

MyselfCollegeGuitarSitTake

I wake up every morning, and I go to ballet class no matter what's going on the night before. That's my priority, and that's what makes me feel sane and not removed from the realities of my world.

Misty Copeland

MorningMeWorldNightWake UpFeel

Stand-up comedy is not for the faint-hearted or the thin-skinned.

Dominic Holland

ComedyStand-Up ComedyStand-Up

Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.

Concha Buika

DreamsBrokenVegasPlaceStrange

The deeper your regional integration, the more value chain activity you generate, but the more you close the gap between your small and your large companies.

Arancha Gonzalez

ValueSmallYouMoreIntegration

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides