Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes About Reading
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Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.
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I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.
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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.
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She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.
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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.
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