Deborah Eisenberg quote: "Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication."

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

I always need huge amounts of time to do anything.
DEBORAH EISENBERG

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

For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cut...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I wa...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

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

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

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

We're all walking around trying to deal with a certain amount of shame, to repress it. And we re...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

I just want to be on my own branch twittering.
DEBORAH EISENBERG

I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a ...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both b...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we're rather arbitrarily divided...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

The first story I wrote was called 'Days,' and I have very little affection for it.
DEBORAH EISENBERG

I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very activel...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

I actually came to New York because it was very tolerant. You know, it seems preposterous, ludicrous...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de fa...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

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

The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is ...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

Fiction is a report from the interior.
DEBORAH EISENBERG

The world belongs to no one. There are very few people who fit into the world. And part of the strug...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

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

I’m a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both bru...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

I don't think things are ever exactly the way one expects, and I don't think things are ever the way...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

Of course I want to have a deliciously seductive story on the surface which will keep people engaged...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
LARRY EISENBERG

If it looks like shit, smells like shit, and feels like shit, you don't have to actually eat it to k...
SETH EISENBERG

In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.
JESSE EISENBERG

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving...
JESSE EISENBERG

I grew up in an apolitical household. I never left the country. When I became an adult, I started tr...
JESSE EISENBERG

The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't s...
JESSE EISENBERG

I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specifi...
JESSE EISENBERG

And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms ...
JESSE EISENBERG

I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.
JESSE EISENBERG

Reviews are critical [to online success]. Most sites do a pretty poor job of giving enough informati...
BRYAN EISENBERG

Visual Sciences has been acting in stealth mode for the past three years, and they by far have the m...
BRYAN EISENBERG

For a product that just launched I'm extremely impressed. Tying it into the analysis, that's the key...
BRYAN EISENBERG

There's really something powerful to this. It's cheaper to get customers to generate media than it i...
BRYAN EISENBERG

There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of cou...
JESSE EISENBERG

When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to i...
JESSE EISENBERG

For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.
LARRY EISENBERG

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
LARRY EISENBERG

If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's...
JESSE EISENBERG

People ask me what my hobbies are in interviews, and I always say biking. But all I bike for is to g...
JESSE EISENBERG

It is abundantly clear that UCI breached its ethical obligations to their patients.
LARRY EISENBERG

I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on...
JESSE EISENBERG

Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider.
JESSE EISENBERG

I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s.
JESSE EISENBERG

As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authentic...
JESSE EISENBERG

Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies ...
JESSE EISENBERG

Like a detective, Melinda traced this fibril-forming property down to a little peptide. Nobody expec...
DAVID EISENBERG

Hopefully next year there will be over 100 volunteers helping our community - we all owe our service...
DANA EISENBERG

As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really...
JESSE EISENBERG

I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work.
JESSE EISENBERG

The truth is in the rhythm.
SETH EISENBERG

You can find whatever you're looking for, so decide what you're looking for.
SETH EISENBERG

As for environmentalism, I'm only an environmentalist by accident. I live in New York, so I bike...
JESSE EISENBERG

Fewer than 40 percent of the alternative therapies are discussed with one's physician, ... In my per...
DAVID EISENBERG

The name change was orchestrated in order to appeal to many cultures, besides just Indian, which was...
DANA EISENBERG

The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene yo...
JESSE EISENBERG

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thoug...
JESSE EISENBERG

I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that mayb...
JESSE EISENBERG

The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false.
JESSE EISENBERG

SBR participated in both 19th Ward House tours as well as in the 19th Ward Community Center - we hel...
DANA EISENBERG

When you do a play, you have the kind of nightly feeling of accomplishment. But you also have the da...
JESSE EISENBERG

I always thought Woody Harrelson is quite a persuasive guy. He's the kind of guy who can call yo...
JESSE EISENBERG

I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has ...
JESSE EISENBERG

The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, bec...
JESSE EISENBERG

[Actually, Eisenberg wants to be a doctor or lawyer trite, sure, but refreshingly absent the love...
HALLIE EISENBERG

[Actually, Eisenberg wants to be a doctor or lawyer -- trite, sure, but refreshingly absent the love...
HALLIE EISENBERG

There was a long time where I couldn't move two feet without someone asking me about it, ... It was ...
HALLIE EISENBERG

What? What is this? ... My sister and I wrote a little play for my parents. How is this out there?
HALLIE EISENBERG

These few factors will keep most people out of trouble and allow them to look at many exciting oppor...
HARRY EISENBERG

If they have not issued a financial statement, that's a company to stay away from. You can't do any ...
HARRY EISENBERG

Any area where institutions are not involved is great for individuals. When the institutions aren't ...
HARRY EISENBERG

If you look at the universe of the 7,000 or so stocks that are priced this way, most of them you wou...
HARRY EISENBERG

I often think if you have time to sit around the house feeling bad for yourself, you have time to tu...
JESSE EISENBERG

It felt great to hit the game-winner. We were knocking on the door the entire game. We didn't play w...
LIZ EISENBERG

It's tough (to play two double overtime games in three days). We're playing a system that requires a...
LIZ EISENBERG

They're very dangerous and they have a good front line. We just didn't test their back line.
LIZ EISENBERG

Approximately 50 cases will be consolidated in this action. The common facts that link the cases inc...
LARRY EISENBERG

We feel like we're starting from scratch.
JEFFREY EISENBERG

I can't think of a place we haven't seen them.
JEFFREY EISENBERG

We feel like we're starting from scratch. The only thing we know is that we don't know anything.
JEFFREY EISENBERG

There's an epidemic going on throughout the country, and New York seems to be the hotbed.
JEFFREY EISENBERG

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishi...
DEBORAH TANNEN

We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken.
DEBORAH TANNEN

The word 'sister' evokes an ideal of connection and support, like the friendships that made ...
DEBORAH TANNEN

Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I bur...
DEBORAH SAMPSON

Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.
DEBORAH MOGGACH

It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think ...
DEBORAH MOGGACH

Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that l...
DEBORAH MOGGACH

It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relativ...
DEBORAH BULL

I did have a go with Botox, but I couldn't move my eyebrows. I also, at one point, had that fill...
DEBORAH MOGGACH

Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only...
DEBORAH REBER

Encourage, lift and strenthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us ...
DEBORAH DAY

Build me up and I with you. For we are more one than two.
DEBORAH DAY

Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us...
DEBORAH DAY

Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky
DEBORAH KERR

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.
DEBORAH TANNEN

Women as mothers grapple with corresponding contradictions. The adoration they feel for their grown ...
DEBORAH TANNEN

For girls and women, talk is the glue that holds a relationship together - and the explosive that ca...
DEBORAH TANNEN

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

There is more excitement, more amazement when a first is born. No subsequent babies can have that im...
DEBORAH TANNEN

I'm a professional non-fiction reader, that's what I do. But in my 20s we had our own vampir...
DEBORAH HARKNESS

I would say 'woman' used to be a noun, and now it is a noun and also an adjective. And words...
DEBORAH TANNEN

I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the las...
DEBORAH SAMPSON

I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an err...
DEBORAH SAMPSON

I believe the wedding vows are sacred and precious, and it's been one of my goals as a writer to...
DEBORAH RANEY

The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have e...
DEBORAH NORVILLE

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to ...
DEBORAH NORVILLE

So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

It is hard to get in the habit of forcing yourself to find three things on a regular basis that you ...
DEBORAH NORVILLE

Religious people are happier.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to grati...
DEBORAH NORVILLE

I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing o...
DEBORAH NORVILLE

I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they...
DEBORAH NORVILLE

If I have time to exercise, I do it, but I don't fixate on numbers like weight or waist size. Nu...
DEBORAH NORVILLE

Certainly the research shows that grateful people are more innovative thinkers.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go ...
DEBORAH NORVILLE

When my mother passed away I was 20.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious...
DEBORAH NORVILLE

So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

It is important for women to know who they are, and to know what makes their hearts sing.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

Motherhood is wonderful, but it's also hard work. It's the logistics more than anything. You...
DEBORAH MAILMAN

A sister is someone who owns part of what you own: a house, perhaps, or a less tangible legacy, like...
DEBORAH TANNEN

My school friends thought I was outgoing and bubbly, but that masked a lot of insecurities, and mayb...
DEBORAH MAILMAN

As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded.
DEBORAH SAMPSON

Many mothers and daughters are as close as any two people can be, but closeness always carries with ...
DEBORAH TANNEN

In this world, conversations are negotiations for closeness in which people try to seek and give con...
DEBORAH TANNEN

For each other, at each other: Sisters can be either or both. The same could be said of people in an...
DEBORAH TANNEN

The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in clo...
DEBORAH COX

I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would d...
DEBORAH COX

I like solitude. I'm very good at being disconnected. I do a lot of disappearing. People who kno...
DEBORAH MAILMAN

Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for ce...
DEBORAH WILES

God has blessed me with the gift of cheerfulness.
DEBORAH RANEY

Letting go is the hardest part... but you have to look at it through their eyes and realize the pain...
DEBORAH REBER

Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses.
DEBORAH DAY

If you put out acceptance and warmth, you tend to attract the same.
DEBORAH DAY

True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for th...
DEBORAH BARNES

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

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

Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.

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Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.

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