“Stop that Stuart," Patty said as Stuart struggled with the suitcases, which were too heavy for him, she thought. (Almost everything was way too heavy for Stuart.)" Just put those down. Besides," Patty said, "where will you go? You don't… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share
“When I was a kid, I used to wonder (I bet everyone did) whether there was somebody somewhere on the earth, or even in the universe, or ever had been in all of time, who had had exactly the same experience that I was having at that moment, and I hoped so badly that there was. But I realized then… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share
“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 a writer - and there aren't many, in face I can't think of any other - is that you know you can make the horrible thing better, then you can make it better again, then you… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share
“Stop that Stuart," Patty said as Stuart struggled with the suitcases, which were too heavy for him, she thought. (Almost everything was way too heavy for Stuart.)" Just put those down. Besides," Patty said, "where will you go? You don't have anyplace to go." But Stuart took her hand and held it for a moment against his closed eyes, and… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share
It's broadening. You meet people in your family you'd never happen to run into otherwise. — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
“When I was in high school, all my friends said they were going to be writers. And I thought, How come you get to be a writer, and I don’t? I thought WRITER was written on their foreheads and they saw it when they looked in the mirror, and I sure didn’t see it when I looked in the mirror.… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
