"Often, I’ll have a scene of people having a conversation in a room. Then
it turns out it’s either the wrong people or the wrong room, and I just
have to keep going about it until I find the right people and the right
room. It’s true that I’m oftentimes dealing with a crowd, and that’s
extremely inconvenient for a writer, but there’s nothing I can do about
that. … It’s hard to discuss, because it’s always sort of an
exploration, and I usually don’t even know for a very long time, what it
is that I’m exploring. So there’s a tremendous amount of exorcising
that I do, carving away. These are very, very long stories that I write,
but you could also call them extremely condensed novels. I feel like I
start with a tremendous amount of material and just keep boiling it
down. But yes, I want to get as close as possible to the inexpressible,
and yet still communicate."
--Deborah Eisenburg
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