Top 23 Nell Freudenberger Quotes
#1. I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.
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#2. If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.
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#3. 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 one at a time. Just thinking about it made him tired.
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#4. Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.
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#5. It wasn't the degree that counted but what you did with it; he believed that too many Americans wasted time and money on college simply for the sake of a fancy piece of paper.
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#6. People lived their lives, carelessly dropping information as if it were trash. The writer moved behind them like a ragpicker. She cleaned and separated their garbage, culled and collected it.
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#7. 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.
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#8. 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.
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#9. I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.
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#11. 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.
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#12. It was possible to be struck dumb by all sorts of emotions, not only surprise, and as they drove back toward Pittsford, Amina thought that there ought to be a whole set of words to encompass all those different varieties of silence.
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#13. 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.
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#14. 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.
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#15. Once again she had the disorientating feeling that her past was still happening, unfolding in a parallel stream right alongside her present.
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#16. Why would some people attracted to what is unfamiliar and others tat what they knew. She thought It may to do how comfortable you are in your own life, how well you though you belong
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#17. 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, like George and determine to make a life another way. It was women who longed to retain ties and connections, to mix things up in complicated ways.
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#18. If her father was Thunder, then George was Smoke - and how could you argue with someone who began to disappear as soon as you opened your mouth?
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#20. 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. Denial, he said, was like a thick stone wall.
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#21. I'm not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought 'Husbands and Wives' was great.
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#22. I think, in general, it's better not to respond to reviews of your work.
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#23. Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.
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