“I'll listen to pretty much anything good, but I probably listen to more "electronic" music than anything else.” Quote by Marques Brownlee
“I'm constantly having doubts and moments of depression and then excitement and then back into the slough of despond.” MomentsDoubtExcitementSlough Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.” IfsOpinionTownsMusicalInteractionDetroitGreat Music Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“We had a poster of the Davis Cup in 1986. It was in Prague, the Czech Republic against Sweden, and we went to watch, so I got the poster. You couldn't get all the posters. You were lucky if you got one.” IfsSportsWatchesLuckyCupsRepublicPostersSwedenCzechPragueCzech Republic Author:Martina Hingis
“I remember liking to write stories pretty early on. In fourth or fifth grade, they would give us the beginning of a story, and we were supposed to finish it. I remember liking that. But I didn't think about deciding to become a writer until high school at about the age of 16.” ThinkingGivingWritingStoriesAgeSchoolRememberHigh SchoolGradesFourthFifthFifth Grade Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“I wanted to be an actor. My parents were not too keen on that.” WantedActorsParent Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“I think there's a real connection between acting and writing novels because the way I write characters has a little bit to do with the method acting that I was taught in high school and college.” ThinkingWayWritingLittlesRealCharacterSchoolBitsActingNovelTaughtCollegeLittle BitHigh SchoolConnectionsMethodMethod ActingReal Connection Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“If I write a character, instead of looking from the outside, like maybe a journalist would, trying to describe them physically and figuring out what kind of things they might be interested in or have in their house, I don't really do it that way. I try to feel what it would be like to be inside this person, to be them.” IfsWayFeelsWritingTryingKindPersonsCharacterMightWould BeHouseJournalist Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.” WritingKindCharacterActingGoes On Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“When I'm creating a character, it's a little bit like what my theater teachers used to tell me about Stanislavsky, like if you're using sense memory to do a scene - if you have to cry in a scene, you try to remember something in your life that made you cry and you use that in order to get the tears.” IfsTryingLittlesMadeCharacterUseRememberUsedOrderBitsMemoriesTeacherCryTearsSceneCreatingLittle BitTheaterRemember Something Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason for writing the book. [...] The other motive is unconscious. There is something deeply psychological and emotional that draws me to the material in the first place.” WayWritingFirstsTwoBookIdeasReasonSeemsEmotionalMaterialsIntellectualDrawsPsychologicalMotiveUnconsciousTwo Ways Author:Jeffrey Eugenides