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Fiction is a report from the interior.

~Deborah Eisenberg

Topics: Fiction Interior Report

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

~Deborah Eisenberg

Topics: About Amazing Amazing Things Fiction Get Other People Things Writing You

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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

Topics: Because Call Certainly Fiction Figure Hard How Lives Now Ordinary Our Out People Political Possible Strong Trivial Very Whole World Would Write

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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 really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction.

~Deborah Harkness

Topics: Empathize Fiction Helping Highlights Lived Long Long Time Long Time Ago Love People Really Really Long Time Students Them Time Who Working

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In documentary, you are sometimes burdened, or you feel very responsible for dealing with - I want to say - more complicated themes. Fiction allows for greater distillation.

~Debra Granik

Topics: Burdened Complicated Dealing Documentary Feel Fiction Greater More Responsible Say Sometimes Themes Very Want You

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I swing with a lot of torque from non-fiction to fiction, and I really like that place in between.

~Debra Granik

Topics: Between Fiction Like Lot Non-Fiction Place Really Swing

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I think 'Mudbound' reveals the interconnectiveness of our stories. You can't separate out threads of history and race as economic construct. 'Mudbound' makes it very plain. Race is about commerce; it's not an actual thing. It's a fiction that was created to basically divide resources unequally.

~Dee Rees

Topics: About Actual Basically Commerce Construct Created Divide Economic Fiction History Makes Our Out Plain Race Resources Reveals Separate Stories Thing Think Threads Very You I Think

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