Nell Freudenberger
Nell Freudenberger
Nell Freudenbergeris an American novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
sibling taken people
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.
funny-things pieces research
Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.
nice writing looks
If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.
self tree together
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.