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

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• 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

• Deborah Eisenberg:

  Fiction is a report from the interior.

• Deborah Eisenberg:

  For someone whose goal in life was to stay unemployed, I can't imagine what I thought was going to

• Deborah Eisenberg:

  I would like to never ever think about any political issues.

• Meredith Monk:

  I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I di

• Meredith Monk:

  I think about that 'empty' space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evo