American - Writer | November 20, 1945 -
I just want to be on my own branch twittering.
Deborah Eisenberg
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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.
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I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very actively in the experience.
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I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient.
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I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses.
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I had no thought of being a writer. I never wanted to do anything. I'm tremendously lazy.
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I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I was writing a story, and it took me years. And when I finished, a friend of mine had the idea that the story should be read as a monologue in a theater.
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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.
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To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.
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I always need huge amounts of time to do anything.
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One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.
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I happen to be a 64-year-old woman who lives in Manhattan, so on and so forth, but am I the sum total of my sort of bodily coordinates? Well, of course not.
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