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


Deborah Eisenberg

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The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching th...
DEBORAH MOGGACH
The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working i...
DEBORAH MAILMAN
The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working i...
DEBORAH MAILMAN
I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and...
DEBORAH MOGGACH
Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Jud...
DEBORAH SAMPSON
On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the p...
DEBORAH SAMPSON
An assumption underlying almost all comments on interruptions is that they are aggressive, but the l...
DEBORAH TANNEN
Asian cultures... place great value on avoiding open expression of disagreement and conflict because...
DEBORAH TANNEN
November 11, 1802, I arrived at Judge Patterson's at Lisle. This respectable family treated me w...
DEBORAH SAMPSON
For many women, and a fair number of men, saying 'I'm sorry' isn't literally an apol...
DEBORAH TANNEN
If you understand gender differences in what I call 'conversational style', you may not be a...
DEBORAH TANNEN
Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80...
DEBORAH BULL
Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns,...
DEBORAH KASS
I'm about as straight an arrow as you'll find out there.
DEBORAH NORVILLE
My interest in the linguistic differences between women and men grew from research I conducted early...
DEBORAH TANNEN
When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when...
DEBORAH COX
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independ...
DEBORAH TANNEN
Happy for America, happy for Europe, perhaps for the world when, on the delivery of Cornwallis's...
DEBORAH SAMPSON
The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you
DEBORAH WILES
There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us ...
DEBORAH HARKNESS
What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragi...
DEBORAH SAMPSON
I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a probl...
DEBORAH ELLIS
When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist a...
DEBORAH ELLIS
This idea that we should be best friends with our partner of the opposite gender leads toward tremen...
DEBORAH TANNEN
Everything we say has metamessages indicating how our words are to be interpreted: Is this a serious...
DEBORAH TANNEN
When daughters react with annoyance or even anger at the smallest, seemingly innocent remarks, mothe...
DEBORAH TANNEN
Help me Lord be a Light and not a shadow in the darkness of my fears.
DEBORAH BRODIE
Not understanding something must not turn us away from God, his ways, or purposes; rather it must be...
DEBORAH BRODIE
What the edge of Truth cuts, the edge of Grace mends.
DEBORAH BRODIE
Count the cost of everything.
Rather than asking someone, "How much does this cost?" Ask yourse...
DEBORAH BRODIE
Start today like a new beginning, and not a repeat.
DEBORAH BRODIE
It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - ...
DEBORAH MOGGACH
He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though t...
DEBORAH COX
The death of compromise has become a threat to our nation as we confront crucial issues such as the ...
DEBORAH TANNEN
There is that idea of seeming crazy when you're seeing spirits or you're seeing dead people,...
DEBORAH MAILMAN
American popular culture, like individuals in daily life, tends to either romanticize or demonize mo...
DEBORAH TANNEN
Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's s...
DEBORAH KASS
I prefer Princess. I would love to be known as a diva later on in life when I've had far more ex...
DEBORAH COX
The effect of dominance is not always the result of an intention to dominate.
DEBORAH TANNEN
In the past, great communicators were great orators, but great communicators today sound conversatio...
DEBORAH TANNEN
The catheter allows us to bathe the entire abdominal area with a high concentration of chemotherapy ...
DEBORAH ARMSTRONG
It's the kind of thing you sort of always hope you're going to see.
DEBORAH ARMSTRONG
It's very good news. A lot of larger institutions have already adopted this approach. At least for t...
DEBORAH ARMSTRONG
This is a significant improvement in survival for women with this disease, which is most often diagn...
DEBORAH ARMSTRONG
IP therapy is not a new treatment approach, but it has not been widely accepted as the gold standard...
DEBORAH ARMSTRONG
We want to make this a model for other communities in the future.
DEBORAH ABBOTT
The heritage of the state is very agricultural. Re-energizing agriculture is the key to Indiana's ec...
DEBORAH ABBOTT
The goal is to create a new use for the manure that's surrounding the town ? as a biofuel.
DEBORAH ABBOTT