“Phil doesn't say yes, but he doesn't really say no. He's willing to ruin a person's life in order to keep her from being angry at him.” — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train. — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Relationships were never equivalent: that was why it was so hard to find permanent ones. When two people depended on each other, they each… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
“Men she thought, could make a clean break with a woman, could leave in the way Parveen's husband had. Or could even be left,… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
“It seemed incredible that it could be the same road, the same asphalt, that they had traveled so many times together. You thought that… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
“He didn't understand how sadness came so easily to people. For him it was like a pile of rocks that had to be moved… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
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… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different. — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books.… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
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… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories. — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
