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. Deborah Eisenberg Read Quote
I suppose I’m always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about my characters. Deborah Eisenberg Read Quote
I had no thought of being a writer. I never wanted to do anything. I’m tremendously lazy. Deborah Eisenberg Read Quote
I’m not used to interviews. People don’t generally interview waitresses. Deborah Eisenberg Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Deborah Eisenberg Read Quote
To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form. Deborah Eisenberg Read Quote
One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people. Deborah Eisenberg Read Quote
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. Deborah Eisenberg Read Quote
