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Nell Freudenberger

Nell Freudenberger Biography

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Nell Freudenberger is a contemporary American novelist recognized for her exploration of themes related to cultural identity and globalization. Born on April 21, 1975, she has gained acclaim for her insightful narratives that often delve into the complexities of modern life.

Nell Freudenberger is a contemporary American novelist recognized for her exploration of themes related to cultural identity and globalization. Born on April 21, 1975, she has gained acclaim for her insightful narratives that often delve into the complexities of modern life.

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“But I have never been sure that we are all talking about the same thing when we talk about love. Perhaps real love is too boring to talk about. Heartbreak is so much easier to understand that I think we might sometimes employ it as an understudy, a stand-in for the real thing.”

Love Heartbreak

Book:The Dissident

Source: The Dissident

“... 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.”

Fear Knowing Denial Repression Society Denial

Book:The Dissident

Source: The Dissident

“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.”

Book:The Dissident

Source: The Dissident

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

Happens America Plans

Book:The Newlyweds

Source: The Newlyweds

“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.”

Self Together Tree Building Substance Permanent Pavement Dissolving

Book:The Newlyweds

Source: The Newlyweds

“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.”

People Knows Parent Answers Fiction Cases Novel Taken Mystery Advice Subjects Century Offers Fascinating Closest Aspire Sibling 19th Century Closest Friends Gusto

Author:Nell Freudenberger

“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.”

Thinking Writing Made Book Remember Practice Publishing Comforting Publishing Books Writing Every Day

Author:Nell Freudenberger

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

Bigs Wife Fans Husband Husband And Wife Woody

Author: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.”

Ifs Way Writing Persons Different Character Voice Easier Significant

Author:Nell Freudenberger

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

Ifs Writing Looks Stories Nice Spurs

Author:Nell Freudenberger

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

Writing Kind Long Character Stories Particular Driven Short Story Story Writers

Author:Nell Freudenberger

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

Different Fiction Pieces Information Research Funny Things One Piece

Author:Nell Freudenberger

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

Writing I Can Car Music Is Train Listening To Music

Author:Nell Freudenberger

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

Giving Book Havens Poet Give Me New Books

Author:Nell Freudenberger

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

Thinking Reviews

Author:Nell Freudenberger

“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.”

Thinking Want Firsts Littles Made Book Stories Bits Novel Reader Little Bit Short Story

Author:Nell Freudenberger

“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.”

Thinking Giving Writing I Can Different Stories Reading Grace Give Me Short Story Writing Short Writing Short Stories

Author:Nell Freudenberger

“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.”

Knows Character Seems Fiction Known Unusual

Author:Nell Freudenberger

About the Author

Born: April 21, 1975
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 18

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