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The world belongs to no one. There are very few people who fit into the world. And part of the struggle of every human life is to somehow claim a place on the planet, but it's at the forefront of the experience of the wandering race. The wandering people.

~Deborah Eisenberg

Topics: Belongs Claim Every Experience Few Few People Fit Forefront Human Human Life Life Part People Place Planet Race Somehow Struggle Very Wandering Who World

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It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily.

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Topics: American Complicated Define Issue Myself Primarily

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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.

~Deborah Eisenberg

Topics: Absolutely Absolutely Everything Always Because Between Communication Consider Equity Everything Fiction Human Include Involves Matter Matters People Political Politics Power Relationships Transaction

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It takes me a very, very long time to write a story, to write a piece of fiction, whatever you call the fiction that I write. I just go about it blindly, feeling my way towards what it has to be.

~Deborah Eisenberg

Topics: About Blindly Call Feeling Fiction Go Just Long Long Time Me Piece Story Takes Time Towards Very Very Long Time Way Whatever Write You I Write

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I would say the reason that I've never written a novel is because I've never written a novel.

~Deborah Eisenberg

Topics: Because Never Novel Reason Say Would Written

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I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about my characters.

~Deborah Eisenberg

Topics: About Always Characters Either Looking Perception Sort Suppose

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I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

~Deborah Eisenberg

Topics: Absolutely Aware Because Children Extremely Filled Injustice Little Live Power Relations Sensitive Think Very World I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 20th, 1945

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