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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• Nell Freudenberger:

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

• Nell Freudenberger:

  I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have

• Nell Freudenberger:

  Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven sh

• Nell Freudenberger:

  I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first b

• Nell Freudenberger:

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

• Nell Freudenberger:

  I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace P

• Nell Freudenberger:

  Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actuall

• Nell Freudenberger:

  If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs

• Nell Freudenberger:

  Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find someth

• Nell Freudenberger:

  It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from