In America you make your plans and then they happen.

- Nell Freudenberger

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.

- Nell Freudenberger

Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can …

- Nell Freudenberger

Novels shouldn’t aspire to answer questions, and I wouldn’t presume to offer advice about love or marriage in any case. What’s fascinating to me abou…

- Nell Freudenberger

Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.

- Nell Freudenberger

It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.

- Nell Freudenberger

I'm not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought 'Husbands and Wives' was great.

- Nell Freudenberger

Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.

- Nell Freudenberger

I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I can't do what …

- Nell Freudenberger