All Susan Orlean Quotes
- Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake bravery of the… Anonymous
- The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired. I have been tired for decades. I… Afternoon
- One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend. Activities
- I would like to make sleeping my new hobby, except that I'm too tired, really, to have a hobby. But a girl can always dream. Always Dream
- A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder. Day
- Dogs really are perfect soldiers. They are brave and smart; they can smell through walls, see in the dark, and eat Army rations without complaint. Army
- Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone… Alert
- Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me. All
- We do a lot of bird-watching up in the country, but we almost never have a chance to people-watch. There simply aren't enough human beings… Almost Never
- Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to… Corny
- I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture. Advice
- I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery. Day
- The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has… All
- I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail… Account
- I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists… Child
- Election Day outside of big cities is different. For one thing, there are so few people in my town that each individual vote really does… Been
- Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways. All
- I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my… Asked
- I was never any good at remembering dates, but now I hardly have to. When the first bulb catalogs get delivered and the hens start… All
- The one thing I've discovered about social media is that people love answering questions. In fact, it sometimes feels like at any given moment, millions… Answering
- What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from… Absent
- Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it. Any
- Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school. Been
- Every single one of my books had its title changed almost as we were going to press, for all sorts of different reasons. All
- I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date. Advice