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title: "1 Accumulate Quotes By Susan Shreve"
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> [As the writer of a pseudonymous book, I gave up my own accumulated history as a novelist and became what I had been as a child: unnamed, unidentified, unacknowledged. Invisible. In a very real sense, what I hope for in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-shreve/as-the-writer-of-a-pseudonymous-book-i-gave-up-my-own-accumulated/)

[Susan Shreve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-shreve/)

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## More by Susan Shreve

> [I hate to confess that I would love to have all of my children in Washington - and at the same time, they've been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-shreve/i-hate-to-confess-that-i-would-love-to-have-all-of-my-children-in/)

[Susan Shreve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-shreve/)

> [Porter is my eldest child, and I tended to be fiercely protective when he was criticized. He actually was not a big complainer about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-shreve/porter-is-my-eldest-child-and-i-tended-to-be-fiercely-protective-when/)

[Susan Shreve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-shreve/)

> [So much of memory comes from the beginning of our lives when we know the world for the first time with a kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-shreve/so-much-of-memory-comes-from-the-beginning-of-our-lives-when-we-know/)

[Susan Shreve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-shreve/)

> [My mother listened to everything I said, carefully - not that what I said was particularly interesting, but I was her daughter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-shreve/my-mother-listened-to-everything-i-said-carefully-not-that-what-i/)

[Susan Shreve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-shreve/)

> [In the late 1990s, I wrote a book from the point of view of a young black woman who has barricaded herself in her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-shreve/in-the-late-1990s-i-wrote-a-book-from-the-point-of-view-of-a-young/)

[Susan Shreve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-shreve/)

> [My mother was a talker, but there are still so many things I want to ask her. She died when I was forty. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-shreve/my-mother-was-a-talker-but-there-are-still-so-many-things-i-want-to/)

[Susan Shreve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-shreve/)

> [As the writer of a pseudonymous book, I gave up my own accumulated history as a novelist and became what I had been as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-shreve/as-the-writer-of-a-pseudonymous-book-i-gave-up-my-own-accumulated/)

[Susan Shreve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-shreve/)

> [As a child, I was an observer, a listener for the stories of grown-ups. I led a quiet, solitary life with my mother, interrupted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-shreve/as-a-child-i-was-an-observer-a-listener-for-the-stories-of-grown-ups/)

[Susan Shreve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-shreve/)

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