Nell Freudenberger

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

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

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.

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.

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

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