The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are merely shell, or husk, that give apparent form to the story, but actually obscure the essence. In other… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
“When I was a kid, I used to wonder (I bet everyone did) whether there was somebody somewhere on the earth, or even in… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
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… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
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
