Deborah Eisenberg

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I always need huge amounts of time to do anything.

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

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.

From Deborah Eisenberg

I'm constantly trying to strip away layers of perceived thought or cliche.

From Deborah Eisenberg

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.

From Deborah Eisenberg