Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams. — Susan Minot Desire Copy Share Image
The idea that there is a family somewhere who functions is an odd concept. — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
Preserving that privacy between a writer and the work is important. You have to shut out all those voices that have reacted… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
Writing an adaptation is not so much a collaboration as it is a series of steps. You're basically creating a blueprint for… — Susan Minot Adaptation Copy Share Image
Change and renewal are themes in life, aren't they? We keep growing throughout life. — Susan Minot Change Copy Share Image
Off the packed trail we experience the miracle of corn snow, skiing atop the crust, like skiing on an eggshell that has… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
When I look through my sketchbooks, they bring back moments that I would otherwise have completely forgotten. — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
In general, my own experience of writing an adaptation of 'Evening' gave me a chance to get into different parts of the… — Susan Minot Adaptation Copy Share Image
So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things. — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock to believe… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
I remember when I was in graduate school and someone in workshop would say, 'I'm going to bring in a chapter of… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register… — Susan Minot Adventure Copy Share Image
Minimalism has a connotation of being reductive, and not in the best way. 'Brevetist' is a better term. I'm trying to be… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
“The past was speaking . . . what was the difference now? She had the feeling she'd walked into a house she… — Susan Minot Time Copy Share Image
Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder… — Susan Minot Cinema Copy Share Image
I love 'Anna Karenina.' It's in the top five books on my list. Tolstoy is unsurpassed in combining the grand with the… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
David Gulden captures animals in all their wonder and intrigue, without glorifying or romanticizing them. He knows Kenya's wildlife intimately, and it… — Susan Minot Animals Copy Share Image
'Monkeys' is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. 'Folly' is a series of vignettes all put together… — Susan Minot Beginnings Copy Share Image
“Unless you were high up in a building or happened to glimpse it at the end of one of the big avenues… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
“Where were you all this time? she said. Where have you been? I guess far away. Yes you were. Too far away.… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
“I walk to think and not to think. When walking I remember things that are important to me. I walk to forget.… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
The word dysfunction has, I think, served its purpose and now has lost its meaning. Every family, like every person, is imperfect,… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
After the briskness of loving, loving stops. And you roll over with death stretched out alongside you like a feather boa, or… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
Did people ever stop changing? They surprised you with fresh pain. Sometimes they surprised you with happiness, but the pain was the… — Susan Minot Change Copy Share Image
“All her life she'd listened to talk, life was full of talk. People said things, true and interesting things and ridiculous things.… — Susan Minot Language Copy Share Image
“He had made his decision. Later in life Ann would learn that when certain men made decisions no matter how much it… — Susan Minot Decision Copy Share Image
“She was pulling a rope out of the water and knew it was coming to the end when the barnacles started to… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
“Starkly in an instant she saw herself as she really was-alone in a wood standing among blue shadows with no sounds and… — Susan Minot Black ice Copy Share Image
“So many things in this world were cracked and sad, and still a glowing showed through and moments came when everything was… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
Boy poison - a boy's kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved more, like… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
A lot of readers want characters to behave in a responsible way, or they want to understand the characters' dilemma and act,… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
Between children and parents, there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people. — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
