33 Quotes by Nell Freudenberger

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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