Words matter. These are the best Susan Minot Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.
A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle.
When I was younger, I suppose I was interested in checking out as much about writing as I could: bad, weird, irritating, even things not-to-my-taste. Now I am less open. I will decide after a few pages if I want to stay in the world of the book, and if I don’t, I put it down. I have less time left.
So many bad things happen in this world because people don’t know how to express things.
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.
Between children and parents, there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.
There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.
The idea that there is a family somewhere who functions is an odd concept.
When I look through my sketchbooks, they bring back moments that I would otherwise have completely forgotten.
Longing, for everyone, is always there, isn’t it? More intense at some times than others. You get closer to less longing – an odd metaphoric phrasing, I realize – then, you are further and longing more than ever again.
Our concerns aren’t always appropriate or morally elevated.
‘Monkeys’ is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. ‘Folly’ is a series of vignettes all put together to tell a larger story. In ‘Lust and Other Stories,’ there are nine stories – three, three, three; the beginnings of love, the middles, and the afters.
In general, my own experience of writing an adaptation of ‘Evening’ gave me a chance to get into different parts of the book.
I don’t consider the first-world concerns any less important than the third-world ones.
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 to me.
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.
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.
I love ‘Anna Karenina.’ It’s in the top five books on my list. Tolstoy is unsurpassed in combining the grand with the trivial, that is, the small details which make up life.
Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.
Preserving that privacy between a writer and the work is important. You have to shut out all those voices that have reacted to your work.
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.
David Gulden captures animals in all their wonder and intrigue, without glorifying or romanticizing them. He knows Kenya’s wildlife intimately, and it shows in the depth of his images. He has an artist’s eye, which delivers beauty and transport in every picture.
The teenager’s room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for her. Here, she can reflect.
Change and renewal are themes in life, aren’t they? We keep growing throughout life.
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.
