Every moment is all the things that have happened before and all the things that are going to happen, and...the way all those things look at one poin…

- Deborah Eisenberg

The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are merely shell, or husk, that give appare…

- Deborah Eisenberg

Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and…

- Deborah Eisenberg

You write something and there’s no reality to it. You can’t inject it with any kind of reality. You have to be patient and keep going, and then, one …

- Deborah Eisenberg

Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.

- Deborah Eisenberg

When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear.

- Deborah Eisenberg

I don't think things are ever exactly the way one expects, and I don't think things are ever the way one assumes they are at the moment. What I actua…

- Deborah Eisenberg

Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from …

- Deborah Eisenberg

I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. It’s not something to be approached casually.

- Deborah Eisenberg