“When I was a kid, I used to wonder (I bet everyone did) whether there was somebody somewhere on the earth, or… — Deborah Eisenberg Every moment 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… — Deborah Eisenberg Art 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… — Deborah Eisenberg Astronomy 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… — Deborah Eisenberg Writing 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… — Deborah Eisenberg Common ground Copy Share Image
It's broadening. You meet people in your family you'd never happen to run into otherwise. — Deborah Eisenberg Family 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… — Deborah Eisenberg High school 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… — Deborah Eisenberg Assuming 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… — Deborah Eisenberg Children 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,… — Deborah Eisenberg Death 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… — Deborah Eisenberg Adhesive Copy Share Image
“I turned with the receiver to the wall as I absorbed the fact of Ivan’s voice, and when I glanced back at… — Deborah Eisenberg Rubber Band Copy Share Image
I’m a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and… — Deborah Eisenberg Action Copy Share Image
“...The war in the East were hidden behind a thicket of language: patriotism, democracy, loyality, fredom - the words bounced around, changing… — Deborah Eisenberg Freedom Copy Share Image
Every moment is all the things that have happened before and all the things that are going to happen, and...the way all… — Deborah Eisenberg Every moment Copy Share Image
When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality… — Deborah Eisenberg Discovering Copy Share Image
Everything seemed to change on that one day, but really, I think, things had been changing and changing over the course of… — Deborah Eisenberg Change Copy Share Image
Nothing is more fortifying than learning that you have a real reader, a reader who truly responds both accurately and actively. It… — Deborah Eisenberg Books Copy Share Image
The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are… — Deborah Eisenberg Elements Copy Share Image
Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting… — Deborah Eisenberg Done Copy Share Image
I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. It’s not something to be approached casually. — Deborah Eisenberg Holy Copy Share Image
You write something and there’s no reality to it. You can’t inject it with any kind of reality. You have to be… — Deborah Eisenberg Be patient Copy Share Image
“When one contemplated Portia, when one contemplated Sharon, when one contemplated one's own apparently pointless, utterly trivial being, the questions hung all… — Deborah Eisenberg Cardboard Copy Share Image
