“Nothing is more fortifying than learning that you have a real reader, a reader who truly responds both accurately and actively. It gives you courage, and you feel, I can crawl out on the branch a little further. It’s going to hold.” GivingFeelsLittlesI CanRealReaderBranches Author:Deborah Eisenberg
“The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are merely shell, or husk, that give apparent form to the story, but actually obscure the essence. In other words, the problem is to transcend the givens of a narrative.” GivingStoriesProblemFormGivenElementsTasksEssenceNarrativeShellsObscurePenetrate Author:Deborah Eisenberg
