Book Quote by Susan Straight

The American fantasy of love is the 'meet-cute,' 'Love at first sight,' and 'You had me at hello!' The completely spontaneous version of accidental…

— Susan Straight

More than half of my former students teach - elementary and high school, community college and university. I taught them to be passionate about…

— Susan Straight

I still live in the same place I've lived all my life.

— Susan Straight

All my best memories of my brother are in vehicles, speeding, predatory or celebratory. We were just made to drive. For the last 12…

— Susan Straight

Teachers spend most of their daytime hours with children. Teachers at every level, coaches, counselors, cafeteria workers and yes, custodians, spend their hours trying…

— Susan Straight

I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.

— Susan Straight

I love election day, and I love to vote.

— Susan Straight

“I have a million nightingales on the branches of my heart singing freedom.”

— Susan Straight

I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.

— Susan Straight

I never took the bus. Never. Walking meant you were eccentric or pious or a loser - riding the bus meant you were insane…

— Susan Straight

“The Men hunted money and sex. The women were hunted and captured, even the white women.”

— Susan Straight

My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance company where she worked and asked for…

— Susan Straight