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.
Jeffrey Eugenidesgirls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests.
Jeffrey EugenidesBut that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival room buried in a house itself becoming one big coffin.
Jeffrey Eugenides