I first met Susan Sontag in spring 1976 when she was recovering from cancer surgery and needed someone to help type her correspondence. I had been recommended by the editors of 'The New York Review of Books,' where I'd worked… — Sigrid Nunez Copy Share Image
You don't sit there at twenty-five, unpublished, inexperienced, and respond to Susan Sontag's editorial suggestions like a little snot, rejecting every one of them. But it had a lot to do with the fact that I didn't admire Susan's own… — Sigrid Nunez Copy Share Image
When I was a kid and wanted to grow up to be a writer, I assumed I would be writing about animals and children… — Sigrid Nunez Copy Share Image
I'm not someone who has a list of great books I would read if I only had the time. If I want to read… — Sigrid Nunez Copy Share Image
“It all sounds much crazier now than it did at the time, but even back then I wasn't sure how Ann could possibly believe… — Sigrid Núñez Copy Share Image
I try to write every day, preferably first thing in the morning. Of course, there are days when something happens to interfere with this… — Sigrid Nunez Copy Share Image
Read as much as possible, especially the work of writers who most deeply affect you. Make those writers your family. Never wait for inspiration… — Sigrid Nunez Copy Share Image
You might not remember what you had for dinner last night, but you remember everything about one particular summer of your youth. It's like… — Sigrid Nunez Copy Share Image
“I did not yet know that, contrary to youth's sense of itself as tolerant, freethinking, and egalitarian, it is more often stubbornly critical and… — Sigrid Núñez Copy Share Image
“She said, "I wish I had been born poor." ("I wish I'd been born an Indian" - Robert Kennedy.) The ideal would have been… — Sigrid Núñez Copy Share Image
“ Strays is what a writer I recently read calls those who, for one reason or another, and despite whatever they might have wanted… — Sigrid Nunez Copy Share Image
“Like many women, she would always find it easier to feel for a male (except, of course, her husband, against whom she bore innumerable,… — Sigrid Nunez Copy Share Image
“Are you a political prisoner, Dooley?" Her blue eyes, immense now in her gaunt face, turned a pitying gaze on the reporter who'd asked… — Sigrid Nunez Copy Share Image
I first met Susan Sontag in spring 1976 when she was recovering from cancer surgery and needed someone to help type her correspondence. I… — Sigrid Nunez Copy Share Image
“But even before she got to college, Ann's thinking had become to change. She could no longer see herself working for the system. The… — Sigrid Núñez Copy Share Image
