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Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 13, 1960

Topics

Life Ending Feel Enough Want Mean

It seems like everybody's perception of me is very bipolar. To one group, it's overpaid, overrated; to another group, it's underpaid, underrated, underdog. It's funny to me because there's no real balance.

Jeremy Lin

Funny Balance Me Perception Underdog

Yes, Donald thinks big, which is especially important when considering the presidency of the United States. No room for small thinking. No room for small results. Donald gets things done.

Melania Trump

Small Thinking Results Done Room

What is exciting is taking back the excitement of being able to debut something to an audience in exactly the way you want to.

Trent Reznor

You Back Want Way Excitement Being

There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.

Jordan Knight

Challenge You Heaven Go Want Try

I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a couple of scripts so I could see how the formatting works. I just needed to know how a Hollywood screenplay looked on the page, which was something I was totally unfamiliar with.

Diablo Cody

Page Know Hollywood Write See Gone

Redheads get so stereotyped. You're either exotic and wild or totally Victorian.

Alicia Witt

You Wild Get Exotic Either Totally

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.

Penelope Lively

Writing Story You New Flexible Way

I was born in Alabama, but I only lived there for a month before I'd done everything there was to do.

Paula Poundstone

Born Done Everything Month Alabama

There is a reason and a need to have an Environmental Protection Agency.

Scott Pruitt

Environmental Need Reason Protection

I like clothes. When I realized as a child that you had to wear them, and it takes the same amount of effort to look good or not, I figured out long ago that I only wanted stuff that I loved and looked good in.

Nick Wooster

Good Effort Child Loved You Look

Anytime you throw claps back to back on a song, it makes everybody want to get up and have fun. It's a fun sound.

Mustard

Fun Song Have Fun You Back Want

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

Khalil Gibran

Time Face Motion Us Been Changed