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I'm a person with virtually no feelings.
— Deborah Eisenberg
I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient.
— Deborah Eisenberg
I had no thought of being a writer. I never wanted to do anything. I'm tremendously lazy.
— Deborah Eisenberg
One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.
— Deborah Eisenberg
I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses.
— Deborah Eisenberg
I believe that people are what happened to their grandparents.
— Deborah Eisenberg
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.
— Deborah Eisenberg
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
We're all walking around trying to deal with a certain amount of shame, to repress it. And we restrict our mental lives to smaller and smaller areas.
— Deborah Eisenberg
I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. It's not something to be approached casually.
— Deborah Eisenberg
I didn't want to write travelogues.
— Deborah Eisenberg
To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.
— Deborah Eisenberg
When one writes, there's the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear.
— Deborah Eisenberg
I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very actively in the experience.
— Deborah Eisenberg
It's broadening. You meet people in your family you'd never happen to run into otherwise.
— Deborah Eisenberg
Art is inherently subversive. It's destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.
— Deborah Eisenberg
I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a collection.
— Deborah Eisenberg
It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily.
— Deborah Eisenberg
Fiction is a report from the interior.
— Deborah Eisenberg
I would say the reason that I've never written a novel is because I've never written a novel.
— Deborah Eisenberg
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.
— Deborah Eisenberg
Everything makes me angry, unless it makes me sad.
— Deborah Eisenberg
The first story I wrote was called 'Days,' and I have very little affection for it.
— Deborah Eisenberg
I always need huge amounts of time to do anything.
— Deborah Eisenberg
I'm constantly trying to strip away layers of perceived thought or cliche.
— Deborah Eisenberg
I just want to be on my own branch twittering.
— Deborah Eisenberg
I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about my characters.
— Deborah Eisenberg
I would like to never ever think about any political issues.
— Deborah Eisenberg