Quotes from Deborah Eisenberg

It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more easily into speech.

For someone whose goal in life was to stay unemployed, I can't imagine what I thought was going to happen. I was so terrified of everything, I just thought I'd curl up in the gutter and die, and by a complete mistake, my life turned out to be absolutely wonderful.

The first story I wrote was called 'Days,' and I have very little affection for it.

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

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.

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.