"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."

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Source : "Off the Page: Nell Freudenberger". The WashingtonPost Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. December 12, 2007.

Nell Freudenberger

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“It's a power that I can't explain. As it flows and it grows and it shapes my faith. There've been hundreds of moments I can't deny. When it brushe against the fire or dwelt in the Fire of God.”
“Close observation of children at play suggests that they find out about the world in the same way as scientists find out about new phenonoma and test new ideas...during this exploration, all the senses are used to observe and draw conclusions about objects and events through simple, if crude, scientific investigations.”
“God is not all that exists. God is all that does not exist.”

Source : Remy de Gourmont (1920). “Philosophic Nights in Paris”
“Even at the time, I realised this couldn't be right, that this interpretation didn't fit with the rest of the lyrics. But that wasn't an issue with me. The song was about what I said, and I used to listen to it again and again, on my own, whenever I got the chance.”
“There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.”
“Questions don't change the truth. But they give it motion.”

Source : "Empire of Dreams". Book by Giannina Braschi, 1988.
“Right before my eyes, I could see my life going away from me and there was nothing I could do.”

Source : Jennifer Niven (2009). “Velva Jean Learns to Drive: Book 1 in the Velva Jean series”, p.367, Penguin
“We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures.”

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