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. Deborah Eisenberg Read Quote
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. Deborah Eisenberg Read Quote
It’s a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily. Deborah Eisenberg Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I would say the reason that I’ve never written a novel is because I’ve never written a novel. Deborah Eisenberg Read Quote
I’m a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I’m inefficient. Deborah Eisenberg Read Quote
