“... you sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they could hear their own words. It was interesting the way people could know things and not know them at the same time.… — 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 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… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share
“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
