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Deborah Eisenberg Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form Picture Quote #1

Everything makes me angry, unless it makes me sad Picture Quote #1

Everything seemed to change on that one day, but really, I think, things had been changing and changing over the course of many previous days, and perhaps what eventually appears to be information always appears at first to be just flotsam, meaningless fragments, until enough flotsam accretes to manifest, when one notices it, a construction Picture Quote #1

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I’m a person with virtually no feelings Picture Quote #1

Nothing is more fortifying than learning that you have a real reader, a reader who truly responds both accurately and actively. It gives you courage, and you feel, I can crawl out on the branch a little further. It’s going to hold Picture Quote #1

Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time Picture Quote #1

I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. It’s not something to be approached casually Picture Quote #1

Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and with what eventually one of her mentors described as an almost alarming speed; she was like a dancer, he said, out in the cosmos springing weightlessly from star to star. Drones, merely brilliant, crawled along behind with laborious proofs that supported her assertions Picture Quote #1

Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda Picture Quote #1

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You write something and there’s no reality to it. You can’t inject it with any kind of reality. You have to be patient and keep going, and then, one day, you can feel something signaling to you from the innermost recesses. Like a little person trapped under the rubble of an earthquake. And very, very, very slowly you find your way toward the little bit of living impulse Picture Quote #1

When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear Picture Quote #1

It’s broadening. You meet people in your family you’d never happen to run into otherwise Picture Quote #1

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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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people (Deborah Eisenberg Quotes) 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 Quotes) To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form (Deborah Eisenberg Quotes) Everything makes me angry, unless it makes me sad (Deborah Eisenberg Quotes) Everything seemed to change on that one day, but really, I think, things had been changing and changing over the course of many previous days, and perhaps what eventually appears to be information always appears at first to be just flotsam, meaningless fragments, until enough flotsam accretes to manifest, when one notices it, a construction (Deborah Eisenberg Quotes) I’m a person with virtually no feelings (Deborah Eisenberg Quotes) Nothing is more fortifying than learning that you have a real reader, a reader who truly responds both accurately and actively. It gives you courage, and you feel, I can crawl out on the branch a little further. It’s going to hold (Deborah Eisenberg Quotes) Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time (Deborah Eisenberg Quotes) I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. It’s not something to be approached casually (Deborah Eisenberg Quotes) Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and with what eventually one of her mentors described as an almost alarming speed; she was like a dancer, he said, out in the cosmos springing weightlessly from star to star. Drones, merely brilliant, crawled along behind with laborious proofs that supported her assertions (Deborah Eisenberg Quotes) Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda (Deborah Eisenberg Quotes) You write something and there’s no reality to it. You can’t inject it with any kind of reality. You have to be patient and keep going, and then, one day, you can feel something signaling to you from the innermost recesses. Like a little person trapped under the rubble of an earthquake. And very, very, very slowly you find your way toward the little bit of living impulse (Deborah Eisenberg Quotes) When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear (Deborah Eisenberg Quotes) It’s broadening. You meet people in your family you’d never happen to run into otherwise (Deborah Eisenberg Quotes)