Deborah Eisenberg Quotes

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• Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.
• It's broadening. You meet people in your family you'd never happen to run into otherwise.
• Everything makes me angry, unless it makes me sad.
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…
• Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.
• 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,…
• The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicized so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public…
• 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…
• I'm a person with virtually no feelings.
• I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. It’s not something to be approached casually.
• 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,…

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