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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Deborah Eisenberg

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Miserable

" 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. "

" The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy. "

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

Deborah Eisenberg

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" I didn't want to write travelogues. "

Deborah Eisenberg

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Want

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

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

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

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

" The first story I wrote was called 'Days,' and I have very little affection for it. "

" 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. "

Deborah Eisenberg

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" Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de facto therapeutic. But really, one writes to write. "

" Fiction is a report from the interior. "

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

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

" Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication. "

" 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. "

" To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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