I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient.

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• Deborah Eisenberg:

  I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses.

• Deborah Eisenberg:

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

• Deborah Eisenberg:

  I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I was w

• Deborah Eisenberg:

  For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cu

• Deborah Eisenberg:

  To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.

• Deborah Eisenberg:

  I always need huge amounts of time to do anything.

• Deborah Eisenberg:

  One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.

• Deborah Eisenberg:

  I happen to be a 64-year-old woman who lives in Manhattan, so on and so forth, but am I the sum tot

• Deborah Eisenberg:

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

• Deborah Eisenberg:

  Of course I want to have a deliciously seductive story on the surface which will keep people engage