“My youth was the most stubborn, peremptory part of myself. In my most relaxed moments, it governed my being. It pricked up its ears at the banter of eighteen-year-olds on the street. It frankly examined their bodies. It did not… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if you're charming enough, you can get away with… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
“Coup de foudre; perhaps it was real. One went from believing, when twenty, that it was the one kind of love that was real, to believing, once closer to forty, that it was not only fragile but false--the inferior, infantile, doomed love of twenty-year-olds. Somewhere between, the norms of one culture of love were discarded, and those of the other… — Susan Choi Copy Share
It's pathetic, but I don't really remember my first time reading 'The Great Gatsby.' I must have read it in high school. I'm pretty… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture. — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
I've at times in my past been so unhappy, and thought, like, 'I would give anything for this not to be happening.' And, you… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
“So perhaps it was her grief I felt as I gazed on this child not mine, and not even much of a child anymore. Grief not for him, nor for Martha exactly, but for all my lost selves, which I liked to imagine were still somehow there, waiting for my return. But those selves were long gone. I would never… — Susan Choi Copy Share
I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my most reliable neighbor… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
I've never written a book with an outline or a predetermined theme. It's only in retrospect that themes or subjects become identifiable. That's the… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
It's still funny for me to think of myself as someone who writes historical fiction because it seems like a really fusty, musty term,… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
“I didn't grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did.” — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So I stopped… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
“And I remembered now, too, my inadvertent youthful condescension, when the woman had said, apologizing for some information she couldn't recall, "I still remember the coat I wore when I was five, but I have no idea what I ate for breakfast today." I'd laughed and smiled in warm sympathy. How sweet, I had thought, she remembers her coat. She… — Susan Choi Copy Share
