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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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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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?
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We worked hard to find the right site for the skate park.
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This is not a plan that is motivated by what the citizens need or want. This plan is not driven by need.... but by greed.
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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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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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I write all over the house. Because I write in longhand, I can go anywhere I want... I have some notebooks here and there, and then I type it in and pull it out, and I do the revisions all over the place.
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Our whole home, our lives, got turned inside out. We just felt fortunate ours was still here, fortunate there were no deaths or anything like that.
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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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I always write my first draft in longhand, in lined notebooks. I move around the house, sitting where I like, and watch the words spool out in front of me, actually taking a lot of pleasure in the way they look in my strange handwriting on the page.
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among the most fascinating of human social or economic inventions.
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You can prepay at any time. If you're making much better money in two years you can begin making triple payments if you like.