Iโm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. Itโs certainly the most miserable state to be in but itโs also tremendously gratifying, reallyโrage feels justified. And itโs an excellent substitute for action. Why would you want to sacrifice rage to go about the long, difficult, dreary business of making something more tolerable?
Deborah EisenbergArt is inherently subversive. Itโs destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.
Deborah EisenbergThe world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicized so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy. A lot of fiction comes out of a child's feeling of, "Hey, that's not fair."
Deborah Eisenberg