Susan Minot Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Success did change me. You don't want it to, but it does.”

“The idea that there is a family somewhere who functions is an odd concept.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”