I love seeing America vote, through the prism of my older working class neighborhood in Riverside, California. — Susan Straight America Copy Share Image
“The Men hunted money and sex. The women were hunted and captured, even the white women.” — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
I have not ever been able to decide how would my girls have fared if they came up in a different time? — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
My mother and father split up when I was three and my brother was still in the womb. — Susan Straight Brother Copy Share Image
“I have a million nightingales on the branches of my heart singing freedom.” — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
“The broken spine of the book shows the webbing of binder's string, and my fingers have worn white spots in the cover.” — Susan Straight Book Copy Share Image
I never saw a gun until I was 24. I didn't grow up in Mayberry; I grew up in Southern California. — Susan Straight California Copy Share Image
Teachers spend most of their daytime hours with children. Teachers at every level, coaches, counselors, cafeteria workers and yes, custodians, spend their… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't… — Susan Straight Books Copy Share Image
I've always told my children that Americans will tell you pretty much anything, but that convention dictates that we don't like to… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays. — Susan Straight Books Copy Share Image
For someone like me who's lived in the same place her whole life - I mean, I lived three blocks from where… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
The American fantasy of love is the 'meet-cute,' 'Love at first sight,' and 'You had me at hello!' The completely spontaneous version… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive… — Susan Straight Character Copy Share Image
My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance company where she worked and… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
The two words, in the American lexicon, are never good. Pink slip. The first time I ever heard it when I was… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
I wrote a story about a man who is orphaned during the 1927 Mississippi River flood in Louisiana, and he's on the… — Susan Straight Flood Copy Share Image
More than half of my former students teach - elementary and high school, community college and university. I taught them to be… — Susan Straight Books Copy Share Image
In 'Love Story,' Oliver Barrett IV comes from generations of wealth and privilege, but when he meets working-class Jennifer Cavilleri, he can't… — Susan Straight Love Copy Share Image
The shimmering, lucid tones and silver melancholy of I'll Be Right There give readers a South Korea peopled with citizens fighting for… — Susan Straight Books Copy Share Image
All my best memories of my brother are in vehicles, speeding, predatory or celebratory. We were just made to drive. For the… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
My brother acquired his first gun when he was very young, from a recently-fled drug dealer's residence. Now, he lived in a… — Susan Straight Animals Copy Share Image
I first drew the attention of my future husband when we were fourteen, on the freshman school bus for an epic field… — Susan Straight Attention Copy Share Image
I never took the bus. Never. Walking meant you were eccentric or pious or a loser - riding the bus meant you… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
