Family Quotes by Deborah Eisenberg

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

Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition…

— Deborah Eisenberg

“When you start writing, your incredulity at the childish, incompetent, graceless thing you've done is shattering. One of the advantages of having experience as…

— Deborah Eisenberg

“Stop that Stuart," Patty said as Stuart struggled with the suitcases, which were too heavy for him, she thought. (Almost everything was way too…

— Deborah Eisenberg

It's broadening. You meet people in your family you'd never happen to run into otherwise.

— Deborah Eisenberg

“When I was in high school, all my friends said they were going to be writers. And I thought, How come you get to…

— Deborah Eisenberg

Everything makes me angry, unless it makes me sad.

— Deborah Eisenberg

I don't think things are ever exactly the way one expects, and I don't think things are ever the way one assumes they are…

— Deborah Eisenberg

The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicized so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of…

— Deborah Eisenberg

“Just think! Garden, garden, garden, garden, garden, two happy people, and it could have gone on forever! They knew, they'd been told, but they…

— Deborah Eisenberg

time is as adhesive as love, and the more time you spend with someone the greater the likelihood of finding yourself with a permanent…

— Deborah Eisenberg