Everything seemed to change on that one day, but really, I think, things had been changing and changing over the course of many previous days, and perhaps what eventually appears to be information always appears at first to be just flotsam, meaningless fragments, until enough flotsam accretes to manifest, when one notices it, a construction.
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 EisenbergIt's broadening. You meet people in your family you'd never happen to run into otherwise.
Deborah EisenbergEvery 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 point on their way along a line.
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 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 EisenbergHer professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and with what eventually one of her mentors described as an almost alarming speed; she was like a dancer, he said, out in the cosmos springing weightlessly from star to star. Drones, merely brilliant, crawled along behind with laborious proofs that supported her assertions.
Deborah Eisenberg