The idea that there is a family somewhere who functions is an odd concept. — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
Writing chases after the senses, and conveys them in an altered form. When it is done well, the senses come alive in… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
I don't consider the first-world concerns any less important than the third-world ones. — 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
There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table. — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait. — Susan Minot Good reason Copy Share Image
Families are endlessly fascinating. We all have one, and they have a great impact on who we are and what we do… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
I first travelled to Africa at the end of 1996 and was immediately captivated. I had planned on a three-week trip, and… — Susan Minot Africa Copy Share Image
Change and renewal are themes in life, arent they? We keep growing throughout life. — Susan Minot Change Copy Share Image
...it occurred to her how some people continued through no design of one's own to be in one's life while others might… — Susan Minot Change 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… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I suppose I was interested in checking out as much about writing as I could: bad, weird, irritating,… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
“I learned that if you love a boy you are o longer free. The boy may become more important than your own… — Susan Minot Boys Copy Share Image
She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change… — 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… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
People can have a variety of concerns at the same time. Even those undergoing grave or traumatic experiences will acknowledge the need… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
Longing, for everyone, is always there, isn't it? More intense at some times than others. You get closer to less longing -… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
“All her life she'd listened to talk, life was full of talk. People said things, true and interesting things and ridiculous things.… — Susan Minot Language Copy Share Image
[The director's idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates. She is… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even know the… — Susan Minot Clarity Copy Share Image
Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which doesn't exist.… — 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… — Susan Minot Decision Copy Share Image
Did people ever stop changing? They surprised you with fresh pain. Sometimes they surprised you with happiness, but the pain was the… — Susan Minot Change 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… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
The word dysfunction has, I think, served its purpose and now has lost its meaning. Every family, like every person, is imperfect,… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
“So many things in this world were cracked and sad, and still a glowing showed through and moments came when everything was… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
“Starkly in an instant she saw herself as she really was-alone in a wood standing among blue shadows with no sounds and… — Susan Minot Black ice 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… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams. — Susan Minot Desire Copy Share Image
The teenager's room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for… — Susan Minot Cave 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… — 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
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