Debra Monroe

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

— Debra Monroe

The advice I give is , "Don't think of your career as a plan or blueprint. Think of it as growing toward…

— 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…

— 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…

— Debra Monroe

I guess the biggest difference between me and many of today's female graduate students is that a lot of them were raised…

— Debra Monroe

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

— Debra Monroe

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

— Debra Monroe

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

— 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…

— Debra Monroe

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

— Debra Monroe