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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.

From Deborah Eisenberg

I just want to be on my own branch twittering.

From Deborah Eisenberg

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.

From Deborah Eisenberg

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

From Deborah Eisenberg

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

From Deborah Eisenberg

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

From Deborah Eisenberg

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

From Deborah Eisenberg

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.

From Deborah Eisenberg

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.

From Deborah Eisenberg

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

From Deborah Eisenberg

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