You write something and thereโs no reality to it. You canโt inject it with any kind of reality. You have to be patient and keep going, and then, one day, you can feel something signaling to you from the innermost recesses. Like a little person trapped under the rubble of an earthquake. And very, very, very slowly you find your way toward the little bit of living impulse.
Deborah EisenbergNothing is more fortifying than learning that you have a real reader, a reader who truly responds both accurately and actively. It gives you courage, and you feel, I can crawl out on the branch a little further. Itโs going to hold.
Deborah EisenbergWhen one writes, thereโs the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear.
Deborah Eisenberg