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Top 15 Nell Freudenberger Quotes (2025 Update)

Nell Freudenberger Quote: “I can’t listen to music when I’m writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.”

1. “I can’t listen to music when I’m writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.”

— Nell Freudenberger

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

2. “Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.”

— Nell Freudenberger

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

3. “Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.”

— Nell Freudenberger

Nell Freudenberger Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Nell Freudenberger Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Nell Freudenberger

Nell Freudenberger Quote: “I think, in general, it’s better not to respond to reviews of your work.”

6. “I think, in general, it’s better not to respond to reviews of your work.”

— Nell Freudenberger

Nell Freudenberger Quote: “I’m not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought ‘Husbands and Wives’ was great.”

7. “I’m not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought ‘Husbands and Wives’ was great.”

— Nell Freudenberger

Nell Freudenberger Quote: “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.”

8. “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

Nell Freudenberger Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Nell Freudenberger Quote: “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.”

10. “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

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

11. “If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.”

— Nell Freudenberger

Nell Freudenberger Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Nell Freudenberger Quote: “I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven’t read.”

13. “I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven’t read.”

— Nell Freudenberger

Nell Freudenberger Quote: “In America you make your plans and then they happen.”

14. “In America you make your plans and then they happen.”

— Nell Freudenberger

Nell Freudenberger Quote: “I had an uncomfortable feeling I sometimes get in conversation with another person, as if the fundamental part of myself had evaporated-not in the sense of being gone, but as if it has undergone a phase transition and is hovering over my actual body as a vapor. That’s the best I can describe it, as if my consciousness and my physical person are suddenly separated.”

15. “I had an uncomfortable feeling I sometimes get in conversation with another person, as if the fundamental part of myself had evaporated-not in the sense of being gone, but as if it has undergone a phase transition and is hovering over my actual body as a vapor. That’s the best I can describe it, as if my consciousness and my physical person are suddenly separated.”

— Nell Freudenberger

Nell Freudenberger Quote: “I think that with most of our friends we choose how much of ourselves to reveal, and with a very select few it feels as if there is no choice.”

16. “I think that with most of our friends we choose how much of ourselves to reveal, and with a very select few it feels as if there is no choice.”

— Nell Freudenberger

Nell Freudenberger Quote: “I think we believed that what we’d achieved acamically was akin to growing up, rather than something we might have done in place of it.”

17. “I think we believed that what we’d achieved acamically was akin to growing up, rather than something we might have done in place of it.”

— Nell Freudenberger

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