Sue Miller
Sue Miller
Sue Milleris an American novelist and short story writer who has written a number of best-selling novels...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth29 November 1943
CountryUnited States of America
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Everything I've written I see in a very precise way and I hear in my inner ear.
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Two of these trucks will travel nationwide, two of these trucks will travel along the I-5 corridor. I know we'll get tips on these cases.
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I was struck after 9/11 by what seemed the assumption that everyone bereaved by that event was suffering the same thing. I wanted to explore how individual grief is, how complicated, how colored by the complexity of the mourner's relationship with the person who's died.
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Basically we had outgrown our facility. And we were landlocked and didn't have room to grow.
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There are things I read doing research, and there are certain books and writers I just love to read. There are books of Brian Morten's that I love, for instance. There's a wonderful book by an Australian writer named Helen Garner called 'The Children's Bach,' and I just love the way she uses language in it.
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This will not only replace what you have now, it will drastically improve what you have now.
less written
I think I'm less disciplined than a lot of other people, I'm afraid, but on the other hand, I've written a lot of books.
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My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer's disease. But I'd often thought, God, we were so lucky that was the order in which they died because she would have felt put upon.
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My writing life is always a bit disorganized. It's hard for me to get going, but sometimes, once I begin, I go like the wind.
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People are always thinking that I'm the main character in my books, but each one has been different, and sometimes they've been men.
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'Jane Eyre' must have been something I read six or seven times as an early adolescent. And 'Kristin Lavransdatter,' and 'Lorna Doone' when I was younger. My parents had a pretty rich library, no jackets on any of the books, so no descriptions. You just pulled something off the shelf and started to read it.
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I wrote a novel in my early twenties; I won a high school prize - my short story got published, and I got 50 dollars, which was a huge deal.
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I think the plasticity of the novel is its greatest challenge. There are no rules; there is no necessary form. You can know what you want it to be, or do, and still not know how to write it. There are endless possibilities, infinite choices. What voice should it be in? What events to start with? What characters will be part of it?
I don't think it will ever be back like it was before.