"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."

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Source : "Off the Page" with Carole Burns, www.washingtonpost.com. December 12, 2007.

Nell Freudenberger

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“There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing with increasing ease items that are positive. For example, words that evoke anxiety, either because of an individuals personal history or because of experimental manipulation, require greater illumination before first being perceived.”
“You're only responsible for your own actions. You can't control how someone else reacts to what you do. You made a choice. Stand by it.”
“Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.”
“It doesnâ€™t feel natural for me to write some diary type song. I want to write a classic like Yesterday but weird songs about meatballs in refrigerators come into my head â€“ I canâ€™t help it.”
“On television, journalists now routinely appear on talk-shows-with-an-attitude where they are encouraged to say what they think about something they may not have finished thinking about.”
“Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.”
“My mother is a walking miracle.”
“Love cars, love people, love life.”

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