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Fiction is a report from the interior.

~Deborah Eisenberg

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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.

~Deborah Eisenberg

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The first story I wrote was called 'Days,' and I have very little affection for it.

~Deborah Eisenberg

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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.

~Deborah Eisenberg

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I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we're rather arbitrarily divided up into these discrete humans and that your physical self, your physical attributes, your moment of history and the place where you were born determine who you are as much as all that indefinable stuff that's inside of you.

~Deborah Eisenberg

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I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It's certainly the most miserable state to be in but it's also tremendously gratifying, really - rage feels justified.

~Deborah Eisenberg

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It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more easily into speech.

~Deborah Eisenberg

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I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk. I can't work for extended periods when I'm beginning something. But if I'm at the end of something, I can work on for hours and hours and hours.

~Deborah Eisenberg

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I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a collection.

~Deborah Eisenberg

Topics: About Books Collection Never Part Really Stories Thought Writing

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I actually came to New York because it was very tolerant. You know, it seems preposterous, ludicrous thing to say in an interview, but I came for the anonymity particularly.

~Deborah Eisenberg

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 20th, 1945

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