Deborah Eisenberg Quotes

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.

Deborah Eisenberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 20, 1945

Topics

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One of the mistakes I made was believing that the rock n' roll genre as a genre was much more free than the whole pop or R&B scene.

Joan Jett

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In truth, the best Bitcoin can hope for is to be a second-rate version of gold, if that.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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I certainly want people to like my writing, but I know that if I write with the intention of trying to please people, the writing will not be good because it will not be authentic. So, ironically, I have to be willing to write something strange or unlovable in order to write anything truly good.

Amity Gaige

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Yoga's an amazing release.

Monica Keena

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I don't remember a time when I didn't define myself as a writer.

Lisa Unger

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For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Joseph Brodsky

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The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

Dennis Weaver

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The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

Brian Eno

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A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

Bruce Boxleitner

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Every couple needs glue to stay together. Like all marriages, I suspect, if you're busy you don't see it coming until you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. It's a bit like going broke. It happens slowly and then very quickly.

Anne Robinson

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We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy. It's just not in usable form yet.

Peter Diamandis

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The day I got my first letter from a fan, I felt like I'd been touched by an angel.

Selena Gomez

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