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All Quotes by author - Deborah Eisenberg

" Fiction is a report from the interior. "

" For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve. "

" For someone whose goal in life was to stay unemployed, I can't imagine what I thought was going to happen. I was so terrified of everything, I just thought I'd curl up in the gutter and die, and by a complete mistake, my life turned out to be absolutely wonderful. "

" I actually came to New York because it was very tolerant. You know, it seems preposterous, ludicrous thing to say in an interview, but I came for the anonymity particularly. "

" I always need huge amounts of time to do anything. "

" I believe that people are what happened to their grandparents. "

" I didn't want to write travelogues. "

" I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk. I can't work for extended periods when I'm beginning something. But if I'm at the end of something, I can work on for hours and hours and hours. "

" I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we're rather arbitrarily divided up into these discrete humans and that your physical self, your physical attributes, your moment of history and the place where you were born determine who you are as much as all that indefinable stuff that's inside of you. "

" I had no thought of being a writer. I never wanted to do anything. I'm tremendously lazy. "

" I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I was writing a story, and it took me years. And when I finished, a friend of mine had the idea that the story should be read as a monologue in a theater. "

" I happen to be a 64-year-old woman who lives in Manhattan, so on and so forth, but am I the sum total of my sort of bodily coordinates? Well, of course not. "

" I just want to be on my own branch twittering. "

" I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very actively in the experience. "

" I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It's certainly the most miserable state to be in but it's also tremendously gratifying, really - rage feels justified. "

" I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient. "

" I'm constantly trying to strip away layers of perceived thought or cliche. "

" I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses. "

" I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about my characters. "

" I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations. "

" It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily. "

" It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my early teens when 'The Magic Barrel' was published and I first read it. "

" It's certainly possible to write fiction that isn't trivial and isn't what people would call political, but it is very hard to figure out how, because our ordinary lives have such a strong tincture now of the whole world. "

" It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more easily into speech. "

" It takes me a very, very long time to write a story, to write a piece of fiction, whatever you call the fiction that I write. I just go about it blindly, feeling my way towards what it has to be. "

" I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a collection. "

" I would like to never ever think about any political issues. "

" I would say the reason that I've never written a novel is because I've never written a novel. "

" Of course I want to have a deliciously seductive story on the surface which will keep people engaged and amused, but primarily, I'm interested in other things. It's the texture of any given moment that fascinates me: what is really going on between people or in somebody's mind. "

" One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people. "

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