Quotes by Susan Minot

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Susan Minot is an American novelist and short story writer.
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He had made his decision. Later in life Ann would learn that when certain men made decisions no matter how much it might torture them afterwards they would stick with their decision. Men, she learned, would rather suffer than change their minds or th...

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For a girl, with each boy it’s as though a petal gets plucked each time.

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I learned that if you love a boy you are o longer free. The boy may become more important than your own self and if it is so, you will find trouble there. The first time you are hurt in your heart, you do not forget the lesson. It stays forever.

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Minimalism has a connotation of being reductive, and not in the best way. 'Brevetist' is a better term. I'm trying to be as concise as possible and still getting across to the reader. When information is delivered in that way, it is very satisfying t...

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Recklessness is par for the course when you're 25.

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So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

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A lot of readers want characters to behave in a responsible way, or they want to understand the characters' dilemma and act, in a way, on their behalf.

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Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder and a little longer. And you end up with a memento.

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When I look through my sketchbooks, they bring back moments that I would otherwise have completely forgotten.

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I don't consider the first-world concerns any less important than the third-world ones.

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A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle.

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Our concerns aren't always appropriate or morally elevated.

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I first travelled to Africa at the end of 1996 and was immediately captivated. I had planned on a three-week trip, and I ended up staying two months.

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Writing chases after the senses, and conveys them in an altered form. When it is done well, the senses come alive in a new and captured form.

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Between children and parents, there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

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Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.

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Writing an adaptation is not so much a collaboration as it is a series of steps. You're basically creating a blueprint for something else.

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When I was in my teens and twenties, I could see friends expressing how radical they were, and I envied them, the way they lived, the way they dressed. Maybe there is a part of me that is reserved, even in rebellion.

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I remember when I was in graduate school and someone in workshop would say, 'I'm going to bring in a chapter of my novel.' The thought that someone could think they'd write a whole long thing... I could only see twelve pages ahead. But then I realize...

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I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because I felt gaps in my literary background. I studied mostly twentieth-century English literature in college, so I thought, 'Maybe I'll go bac...

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Author Bio

  • NameSusan Minot
  • DescriptionAmerican author and screenwriter
  • BornDecember 7, 1956
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist