"Preserving that privacy between a writer and the……" — Susan Minot
"Preserving that privacy between a writer and the work is important. You have to shut out all those voices that have reacted to your work."
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29 Quotes by Susan Minot
Susan Minot has 29 quotes on this site.
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When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock…
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The word dysfunction has, I think, served its purpose and now has lost its meaning. Every family, like every person,…
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After the briskness of loving, loving stops. And you roll over with death stretched out alongside you like a feather…
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[The director's idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates.…
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Boy poison - a boy's kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved…
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I would have fallen in love with you anywhere.
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There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.
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After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even…
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...[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been.
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...it occurred to her how some people continued through no design of one's own to be in one's life while…
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Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which…
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Did people ever stop changing? They surprised you with fresh pain. Sometimes they surprised you with happiness, but the pain…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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