The advice I give is , "Don't think of your career as a plan or blueprint. Think of it as growing toward the most light. Keep your eyes open about where the best experiences are happening." Everyone wants to see… — 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 mind, memoir means "recovery." When my agent and I started looking at small presses the possibility for my book, I realized most small presses were not publishing memoir, because they don't want to be associated with… — Debra Monroe Copy Share
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 way we define what it means to be human. In Sincerity and Authenticity, Lionel Trilling describes the changes that occurred between about 1850 and 1920, due to the Industrial Revolution and the resulting migration of people… — Debra Monroe Copy Share
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
