Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de facto therapeutic. But really, one writes to write. Deborah Eisenberg Read Quote
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 Read Quote
It’s almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my early teens when ‘The Magic Barrel’ was published and I first read it. Deborah Eisenberg Read Quote
It’s much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more easily into speech. Deborah Eisenberg Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’ve never really thought of writing books. I’ve never thought about stories as a part of a collection. Deborah Eisenberg Read Quote
