I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because I felt gaps in my literary background. I studied mostly twentieth-century English literature in college, so I thought,… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
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… — Susan Minot 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 trivial, that… — 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 a snake,… — 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, in a… — Susan Minot 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
“He had made his decision. Later in life Ann would learn that when certain men made decisions no matter how much it might torture… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
Change and renewal are themes in life, arent they? We keep growing throughout life. — 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 thought she… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams. — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
When I travel, I always take my Winsor & Newton watercolor kit, which is the size of a pack of cigarettes when folded up.… — 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 it. — 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 my novel.'… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
