Deborah Eisenberg

I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It's certainly the most miserable state to be in but it's also tremendously gratifying, really - rage feels justified. ”

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. ”

I would like to never ever think about any political issues. ”

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. ”

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

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

I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a collection. ”

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

The world belongs to no one. There are very few people who fit into the world. And part of the struggle of every human life is to somehow claim a place on the planet, but it's at the forefront of the experience of the wandering race. The wandering people. ”

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