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One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.

~Deborah Eisenberg

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I happen to be a 64-year-old woman who lives in Manhattan, so on and so forth, but am I the sum total of my sort of bodily coordinates? Well, of course not.

~Deborah Eisenberg

Topics: Am Bodily Coordinate Course Forth Happen Lives Manhattan Sort Sum Sum Total Total Well Who Woman

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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.

~Deborah Eisenberg

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For someone whose goal in life was to stay unemployed, I can't imagine what I thought was going to happen. I was so terrified of everything, I just thought I'd curl up in the gutter and die, and by a complete mistake, my life turned out to be absolutely wonderful.

~Deborah Eisenberg

Topics: Absolutely Complete Curl Die Everything Goal Going Gutter Happen Imagine Just Life Mistake My Life Out Someone Stay Terrified Thought Turned Unemployed Up Whose Wonderful

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I would like to never ever think about any political issues.

~Deborah Eisenberg

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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.

~Deborah Eisenberg

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I didn't want to write travelogues.

~Deborah Eisenberg

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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.

~Deborah Eisenberg

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I believe that people are what happened to their grandparents.

~Deborah Eisenberg

Topics: Believe Grandparents Happened People I Believe I Believe That

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 20th, 1945

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