Sigrid Nunez

No one's memory is infallible, of course - quite the opposite.

— Sigrid Nunez

When I was a kid and wanted to grow up to be a writer, I assumed I would be writing about animals…

— Sigrid Nunez

I'm not someone who has a list of great books I would read if I only had the time. If I want…

— Sigrid Nunez

“It all sounds much crazier now than it did at the time, but even back then I wasn't sure how Ann could…

— Sigrid Núñez

I try to write every day, preferably first thing in the morning. Of course, there are days when something happens to interfere…

— Sigrid Nunez

Read as much as possible, especially the work of writers who most deeply affect you. Make those writers your family. Never wait…

— Sigrid Nunez

You might not remember what you had for dinner last night, but you remember everything about one particular summer of your youth.…

— Sigrid Nunez

“I did not yet know that, contrary to youth's sense of itself as tolerant, freethinking, and egalitarian, it is more often stubbornly…

— Sigrid Núñez

“She said, "I wish I had been born poor." ("I wish I'd been born an Indian" - Robert Kennedy.) The ideal would…

— Sigrid Núñez

“ Strays is what a writer I recently read calls those who, for one reason or another, and despite whatever they might…

— Sigrid Nunez

You write a thing down because you're hoping to get a hold on it.

— Sigrid Nunez

“Like many women, she would always find it easier to feel for a male (except, of course, her husband, against whom she…

— Sigrid Nunez

“Are you a political prisoner, Dooley?" Her blue eyes, immense now in her gaunt face, turned a pitying gaze on the reporter…

— Sigrid Nunez

I first met Susan Sontag in spring 1976 when she was recovering from cancer surgery and needed someone to help type her…

— Sigrid Nunez

“But even before she got to college, Ann's thinking had become to change. She could no longer see herself working for the…

— Sigrid Núñez

You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always…

— Sigrid Nunez

“[Brodsky] loved cats, and sometimes for a greeting would meow.”

— Sigrid Nunez

You don't sit there at twenty-five, unpublished, inexperienced, and respond to Susan Sontag's editorial suggestions like a little snot, rejecting every one…

— Sigrid Nunez

“[Ann] didn't approve of the contributions her parents made to large cultural institutions like the Lincoln Center...The Draytons were also big givers…

— Sigrid Núñez

There's a lot of material from my life in my books, but they're not really autobiographical, in the sense that they're not…

— Sigrid Nunez

“Here are more lines from The Great Gatsby. I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the…

— Sigrid Nunez

Unfortunately, I was like a lot of my own students, who don't really want criticism, just encouragement.

— Sigrid Nunez

It's true that if you cry hard enough for long enough, you can end up with blurred vision.

— Sigrid Nunez

“It happened to me the year I retired. You reach a certain age, and it all kicks in: Social Security, Medicare, and…

— Sigrid Nunez

As an undergraduate, I took two writing workshops taught by Elizabeth Hardwick. She was certainly a major influence, though more as a…

— Sigrid Nunez