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
characters either suppose
I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about my characters.
actively experience jumps
I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very actively in the experience.
I just want to be on my own branch twittering.
I had no thought of being a writer. I never wanted to do anything. I'm tremendously lazy.
time
I always need huge amounts of time to do anything.
absolutely consider fiction human include involves matter matters people politics power relationships
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.
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.
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It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my early teens when 'The Magic Barrel' was published and I first read it.
believe people
I believe that people are what happened to their grandparents.