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Top 15 Deborah Eisenberg Quotes (2025 Update)

Deborah Eisenberg Quote: “Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.”

1. “Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.”

— Deborah Eisenberg

Deborah Eisenberg Quote: “Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.”

2. “Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.”

— Deborah Eisenberg

Deborah Eisenberg Quote: “I’m a person with virtually no feelings.”

3. “I’m a person with virtually no feelings.”

— Deborah Eisenberg

Deborah Eisenberg Quote: “The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are merely shell, or husk, that give apparent form to the story, but actually obscure the essence. In other words, the problem is to transcend the givens of a narrative.”

4. “The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are merely shell, or husk, that give apparent form to the story, but actually obscure the essence. In other words, the problem is to transcend the givens of a narrative.”

— Deborah Eisenberg

Deborah Eisenberg Quote: “Everything makes me angry, unless it makes me sad.”

5. “Everything makes me angry, unless it makes me sad.”

— Deborah Eisenberg

Deborah Eisenberg Quote: “It’s broadening. You meet people in your family you’d never happen to run into otherwise.”

6. “It’s broadening. You meet people in your family you’d never happen to run into otherwise.”

— Deborah Eisenberg

Deborah Eisenberg Quote: “The 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.””

7. “The 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

Deborah Eisenberg Quote: “When you start writing, your incredulity at the childish, incompetent, graceless thing you’ve done is shattering. One of the advantages of having experience as a writer – and there aren’t many, in face I can’t think of any other – is that you know you can make the horrible thing better, then you can make it better again, then you can make it better again. And you may not be able to make it good, but at least it’s not going to be what you’re looking at now.”

8. “When you start writing, your incredulity at the childish, incompetent, graceless thing you’ve done is shattering. One of the advantages of having experience as a writer – and there aren’t many, in face I can’t think of any other – is that you know you can make the horrible thing better, then you can make it better again, then you can make it better again. And you may not be able to make it good, but at least it’s not going to be what you’re looking at now.”

— Deborah Eisenberg

Deborah Eisenberg Quote: “I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. It’s not something to be approached casually.”

9. “I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. It’s not something to be approached casually.”

— Deborah Eisenberg

Deborah Eisenberg Quote: “Nothing 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. It’s going to hold.”

10. “Nothing 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. It’s going to hold.”

— Deborah Eisenberg

Deborah Eisenberg Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Deborah Eisenberg

Deborah Eisenberg Quote: “The planes struck, tearing through the curtain of that blue September morning, exposing the dark world that lay right behind it, of populations ruthlessly exploited, inflamed with hatred, and tired of waiting for change to happen by.”

12. “The planes struck, tearing through the curtain of that blue September morning, exposing the dark world that lay right behind it, of populations ruthlessly exploited, inflamed with hatred, and tired of waiting for change to happen by.”

— Deborah Eisenberg

Deborah Eisenberg Quote: “I don’t think things are ever exactly the way one expects, and I don’t think things are ever the way one assumes they are at the moment. What I actually think is that one has no idea of what things are like, ever.”

13. “I don’t think things are ever exactly the way one expects, and I don’t think things are ever the way one assumes they are at the moment. What I actually think is that one has no idea of what things are like, ever.”

— Deborah Eisenberg

Deborah Eisenberg Quote: “I was looking out at cliffs and the sea, all sluiced in delicate pinks and yellows and greens and blues, as if the sun were imparting to the sleeping rock and water dreams of their youth, dreams of the rock’s birth in the earth’s molten core, the water’s ecstatic purity before it was sullied by life – as if the play of soft colors were the sun’s lullaby to the cliffs and the sea, of endurance and transformation.”

14. “I was looking out at cliffs and the sea, all sluiced in delicate pinks and yellows and greens and blues, as if the sun were imparting to the sleeping rock and water dreams of their youth, dreams of the rock’s birth in the earth’s molten core, the water’s ecstatic purity before it was sullied by life – as if the play of soft colors were the sun’s lullaby to the cliffs and the sea, of endurance and transformation.”

— Deborah Eisenberg

Deborah Eisenberg Quote: “Pretty girls are not to be envied. Because when a boy sees a pretty girl, he does not see a real person. He sees a mirror of his own desires, and he falls in love with the mirror. Boys put a pretty girl on a pedestal.”

15. “Pretty girls are not to be envied. Because when a boy sees a pretty girl, he does not see a real person. He sees a mirror of his own desires, and he falls in love with the mirror. Boys put a pretty girl on a pedestal.”

— Deborah Eisenberg

Deborah Eisenberg Quote: “It’s odd – no matter how you feel about a place, it’s as though you exchange something with it. It keeps a little bit of you, and you keep a little bit of it.” “I know,” he said. “And the thing you mostly get to keep is leaving.”

16. “It’s odd – no matter how you feel about a place, it’s as though you exchange something with it. It keeps a little bit of you, and you keep a little bit of it.” “I know,” he said. “And the thing you mostly get to keep is leaving.”

— Deborah Eisenberg

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