Susan Orlean Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“There are cultures that believe having your photograph taken steals your soul. I don't think there is a stolen soul in a picture, but still - why is it so hard to throw them away?”

“On the very same day that I ordered an iPad 2, I went shopping to buy myself a letter opener. I like to cover all my bases.”

“Who on earth is going to use 'utilize' in a text message, a whopping seven characters including the always-hard-to-type 'z,' when you can say the exact same thing in three characters? I can't think of a sentence in which 'use' can't replace 'utilize.'”

“I've loved some gadgets that were not worthy, and I've loved gadgets that I would have loved more if I had waited for their developers to figure out how to really make them work, but I loved them anyway.”

“I feel somewhat responsible for the Borders Books bankruptcy.”

“The one thing I've discovered about social media is that people love answering questions. In fact, it sometimes feels like at any given moment, millions of people are online who have been waiting for exactly the question you fire off.”

“Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it.”

“Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.”

“I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.”

“I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.”