American - Writer | November 20, 1945 -
I'm constantly trying to strip away layers of perceived thought or cliche.
Deborah Eisenberg
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Of course I want to have a deliciously seductive story on the surface which will keep people engaged and amused, but primarily, I'm interested in other things. It's the texture of any given moment that fascinates me: what is really going on between people or in somebody's mind.
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Fiction is a report from the interior.
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I would like to never ever think about any political issues.
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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.
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I didn't want to write travelogues.
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It's certainly possible to write fiction that isn't trivial and isn't what people would call political, but it is very hard to figure out how, because our ordinary lives have such a strong tincture now of the whole world.
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I believe that people are what happened to their grandparents.
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It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily.
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Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.
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It takes me a very, very long time to write a story, to write a piece of fiction, whatever you call the fiction that I write. I just go about it blindly, feeling my way towards what it has to be.
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I would say the reason that I've never written a novel is because I've never written a novel.
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