“All her life she'd listened to talk, life was full of talk. People said things, true and interesting things and ridiculous things. Her father used to say they talked too much. There was much to say, she had said her… — 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
“Where were you all this time? she said. Where have you been? I guess far away. Yes you were. Too far away. They sat… — Susan Minot 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 appear and… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
...[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been. — Susan Minot Copy Share Image