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I just want to be on my own branch twittering.

~Deborah Eisenberg

Topics: Branch Just My Own Own Want

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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.

~Deborah Eisenberg

Topics: Amount Area Around Certain Deal Lives Mental Our Restrict Shame Smaller Trying Walking

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I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very actively in the experience.

~Deborah Eisenberg

Topics: Actively Experience Jumps Like Participate Reader Short Short Stories Stories Very

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I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient.

~Deborah Eisenberg

Topics: Inefficient Lot Need Paper Spoiled Very Waste Writer

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I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses.

~Deborah Eisenberg

Topics: Generally Interview Interviews People Used

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I had no thought of being a writer. I never wanted to do anything. I'm tremendously lazy.

~Deborah Eisenberg

Topics: Anything Being Had Lazy Never Thought Tremendously Wanted Writer

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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.

~Deborah Eisenberg

Topics: Desperation Finished Friend Had Idea Know Me Mine Monologue Out Read Really Should Some Story Theater Took Writing Written Wrote Years

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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.

~Deborah Eisenberg

Topics: Consists Cutting Dead Endless Ends False Matter Me Most Nerve Out Patience Really Rewriting Seems Starts Useless Waiting Way Writing

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To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.

~Deborah Eisenberg

Topics: Art Art Form Fiction Form Interested Short Short Stories Stories You

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I always need huge amounts of time to do anything.

~Deborah Eisenberg

Topics: Always Amount Anything Huge Huge Amounts Need Time

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 20th, 1945

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