I guess the biggest difference between me and many of today's female graduate students is that a lot of them were raised by mothers with careers, and they got college degrees studying with female professors. Both of those factors make… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
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 to detect. It was more explicit when I was in school. There were no… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
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 this.… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
Historians will look back on this era and how the Internet changed what we value, what we consider art, the way we think, the… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
The advice I give is , "Don't think of your career as a plan or blueprint. Think of it as growing toward the most… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
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… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I know a few women younger than me who have careers and children, and so the burgeoning career and family happen at the same… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I guess the biggest difference between me and many of today's female graduate students is that a lot of them were raised by mothers… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
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… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
