Yet one new trend I do like coming from mainstream publishers right now is memoirs tied to research that explores the narrator's dilemma.

- Debra Monroe

Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective mind, mem…

- Debra Monroe

The advice I give is , "Don't think of your career as a plan or blueprint. Think of it as growing toward the most light. Keep your eyes open about wh…

- Debra Monroe

Grading creative writing is always an ethical dilemma. But what you brought up about grading personal stories versus the research paper is of course …

- Debra Monroe

I started writing nonfiction because nonfiction is well-suited to subjects that, if you wrote them as fiction, people would say, "I don't believe thi…

- Debra Monroe

I don't know a lot of writers, even writers who have been on the bestseller list for a few weeks, or writers who have gotten movie options, who can l…

- Debra Monroe

There's still sexism in the world, so there's still sexism in publishing and in graduate school. But it is different. Now, it's more coded and harder…

- Debra Monroe

Historians will look back on this era and how the Internet changed what we value, what we consider art, the way we think, the way we define what it m…

- Debra Monroe

I know a few women younger than me who have careers and children, and so the burgeoning career and family happen at the same time. A few have said so…

- Debra Monroe