Nell Freudenberger Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Nell Freudenberger:

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.
~Nell Freudenberger


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/nell-freudenberger-quotes/#ba70186a

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/nell-freudenberger-quotes/#dad379c1

I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.
~Nell Freudenberger


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/nell-freudenberger-quotes/#f0e906d3

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.
~Nell Freudenberger


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/nell-freudenberger-quotes/#3b163022

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 can't do what they do, but reading them gives me hope that I'll learn something from them.
~Nell Freudenberger


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/nell-freudenberger-quotes/#f385fa97

I'm not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought 'Husbands and Wives' was great.
~Nell Freudenberger


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/nell-freudenberger-quotes/#0801d65c

I think, in general, it's better not to respond to reviews of your work.
~Nell Freudenberger


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/nell-freudenberger-quotes/#11cd1258

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. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.
~Nell Freudenberger


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/nell-freudenberger-quotes/#e6024312

If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.
~Nell Freudenberger


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/nell-freudenberger-quotes/#8e034cfd

Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.
~Nell Freudenberger


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/nell-freudenberger-quotes/#558a0d68

Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.
~Nell Freudenberger


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/nell-freudenberger-quotes/#7f6f9964

Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.
~Nell Freudenberger


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/nell-freudenberger-quotes/#5ba78bea

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