"Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines……" — 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."
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13 Quotes by Deborah Eisenberg
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Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable…
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It's broadening. You meet people in your family you'd never happen to run into otherwise.
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Everything makes me angry, unless it makes me sad.
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I’m a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both…
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When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also…
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You write something and there’s no reality to it. You can’t inject it with any kind of reality. You have…
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Everything seemed to change on that one day, but really, I think, things had been changing and changing over the…
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The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicized so that our daily experience is more and…
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Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at…
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I'm a person with virtually no feelings.
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I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. It’s not something to be approached casually.
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Nothing is more fortifying than learning that you have a real reader, a reader who truly responds both accurately and…
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