I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train. — Nell Freudenberger Car 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… — Nell Freudenberger Character 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,… — Nell Freudenberger Relationships 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… — Nell Freudenberger Life 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… — Nell Freudenberger Time 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… — Nell Freudenberger Sadness 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,… — Nell Freudenberger Different 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 Different 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… — Nell Freudenberger Book 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… — Nell Freudenberger 19th century Copy Share Image
Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories. — Nell Freudenberger Character Copy Share Image
“We complain and complain in the villages, and then take us out and it's all we can talk about." "Aren't people that… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
You thought that you were the permanent part of your own experience, the net that held it all together - until you… — Nell Freudenberger Building Copy Share Image
I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that… — Nell Freudenberger Book Copy Share Image
“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… — Nell Freudenberger Arguments Copy Share Image
“... you sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they could hear their own… — Nell Freudenberger Denial Copy Share Image
I'm not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought 'Husbands and Wives' was great. — Nell Freudenberger Bigs Copy Share Image
“People lived their lives, carelessly dropping information as if it were trash. The writer moved behind them like a ragpicker. She cleaned… — Nell Freudenberger Writing Copy Share Image
I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read. — Nell Freudenberger Book Copy Share Image
“But I have never been sure that we are all talking about the same thing when we talk about love. Perhaps real… — Nell Freudenberger Heartbreak Copy Share Image
I think, in general, it's better not to respond to reviews of your work. — Nell Freudenberger Reviews Copy Share Image
Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life,… — Nell Freudenberger Character Copy Share Image
If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write. — Nell Freudenberger Looks Copy Share Image
