Deborah Eisenberg
Deborah Eisenberg
Deborah Eisenbergis an American short-story writer, actress and teacher...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 November 1945
CityWinnetka, IL
CountryUnited States of America
consists cutting endless false patience seems useless
For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve.
change course facto feels good
Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de facto therapeutic. But really, one writes to write.
amount certain deal lives restrict smaller trying
We're all walking around trying to deal with a certain amount of shame, to repress it. And we restrict our mental lives to smaller and smaller areas.
art interested
To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.
experience matter public
The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy.
The first story I wrote was called 'Days,' and I have very little affection for it.
amazing
One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.
easier easily stories
It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more easily into speech.
It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily.
I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a collection.
generally people
I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses.
constantly perceived trying
I'm constantly trying to strip away layers of perceived thought or cliche.
I would like to never ever think about any political issues.
characters either suppose
I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about my characters.