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Deborah Eisenberg

Deborah Eisenberg

American Writer

Born: Nov 20, 1945

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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. Deborah Eisenberg

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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. Deborah Eisenberg

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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. Deborah Eisenberg

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I just want to be on my own branch twittering. Deborah Eisenberg

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

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

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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. Deborah Eisenberg

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

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

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

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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

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I didn't want to write travelogues. Deborah Eisenberg

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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. Deborah Eisenberg

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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