Deborah Eisenberg Quotes
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I'm constantly trying to strip away layers of perceived thought or cliche.
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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.
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I would say the reason that I've never written a novel is because I've never written a novel.
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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.
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Fiction is a report from the interior.
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I had no thought of being a writer. I never wanted to do anything. I'm tremendously lazy.
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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.
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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.
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It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more easily into speech.
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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.
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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.
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I always need huge amounts of time to do anything.
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I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient.