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In America you make your plans and then they happen.
Nell Freudenberger / Novelist
America
Happens
Plans
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I think, in general, it's better not to respond to reviews of your work.
Nell Freudenberger / Novelist
Reviews
Thinking
Work Better Your
Respond
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I'm not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought 'Husbands and Wives' was great.
Nell Freudenberger / Novelist
Fans
Husband
Wife
Woody
Allen
Husbands
Wives
Woody Allen
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I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.
Nell Freudenberger / Novelist
Book
Giving
Poet
New Book
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I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.
Nell Freudenberger / Novelist
Car
Music Is
Writing
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Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.
Nell Freudenberger / Novelist
Character
Long
Writing
Alice
Particular Kind
Short Stories
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If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.
Nell Freudenberger / Novelist
Nice
Spurs
Writing
Photo
Published
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Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.
Nell Freudenberger / Novelist
Different
Fiction
Funny Things
Altogether
Funny Thing
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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 / Novelist
Character
Significant
Voice
Writing
Character Me Voice
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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 / Novelist
Book
Reader
Short Story
Stories
Thinking
Me Always More
Novels
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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 / Novelist
Character
Fiction
Unusual
Life Good Great
Deeply
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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 / Novelist
Book
Comforting
Publishing
Thinking
Writing
Me Day Remember
Me Remember Day
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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 / Novelist
Grace
Reading
Thinking
Writing
Alice
Influenced
Short Stories
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You thought that you were the permanent part of your own experience, the net that held it all together - until you discovered that there were many selves, dissolving into one another so quickly over time that the buildings and the trees and even the pavement turned out to have more substance than you did.
Nell Freudenberger / Novelist
Self
Together
Tree
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Novels shouldn’t aspire to answer questions, and I wouldn’t presume to offer advice about love or marriage in any case. What’s fascinating to me about marriage as a subject for fiction—a subject that fiction has taken on with gusto since the 19th century—is how unknowable other people’s relationships are. Even the marriages of your parents, your siblings, your closest friends always remain something of a mystery. Only in fiction can you pretend to know people completely.
Nell Freudenberger / Novelist
People
Sibling
Taken
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