I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very actively in the experience. Deborah Eisenberg Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Deborah Eisenberg Read Quote
I’m constantly trying to strip away layers of perceived thought or cliche. Deborah Eisenberg Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The world belongs to no one. There are very few people who fit into the world. And part of the struggle of every human life is to somehow claim a place on the planet, but it’s at the forefront of the experience of the wandering race. The wandering people. Deborah Eisenberg Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I actually came to New York because it was very tolerant. You know, it seems preposterous, ludicrous thing to say in an interview, but I came for the anonymity particularly. Deborah Eisenberg Read Quote
The first story I wrote was called ‘Days,’ and I have very little affection for it. Deborah Eisenberg Read Quote
