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.

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

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

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.