I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.
Jeffrey EugenidesThe Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.
Jeffrey EugenidesThe 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.
Jeffrey Eugenides