You thought that you were the permanent part of your own experience, the net that held it all together - until you discovered that there were many selves, dissolving into one another so quickly over time that the buildings and the trees and even the pavement turned out to have more substance than you did.
In America you make your plans and then they happen. - Nell Freudenberger
In America you make your plans and then they happen.
- 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
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.
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
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…
Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different. - Nell Freudenberger
Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.
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
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.
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
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 …
Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories. - Nell Freudenberger
Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.
I'm not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought 'Husbands and Wives' was great. - Nell Freudenberger
I'm not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought 'Husbands and Wives' was great.
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
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 …
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