Susan Isaacs
Susan Isaacs
Susan Isaacsis an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter. She was born in Brooklyn, New York to Helen Asher Isaacs a homemaker, and Morton Isaacs an electrical engineer. At Queens College, she majored in English and minored in economics. After college, she worked as a senior editor at Seventeen magazine and also as a freelance political speechwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 December 1943
CountryUnited States of America
Style is not my long suit, but I'm really fascinated by it.
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Our culture is so celebrity-obsessed that for individuals to show they matter, they need to display their intimacy to fame.
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Just as you can accept Miss Marple going to tea with the vicar, there's no reason why Long Island can't have a universality to it.
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It's not that I'm apolitical... In my youth, I was a freelance political speechwriter, which taught me a lot about writing fiction, I must add.
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I've had lots of commercial success. I've also had some terrible reviews and some wonderful reviews.
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I was always the weirdo who wanted to have an egalitarian service in synagogue and felt I was always going against the grain.
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I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.
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I love being a grandparent. I'm one of those you want to avoid - I pull out the iPhone and say, 'Hey, wanna see my camera roll?'
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I have such admiration for Whoopi Goldberg as an actress and a general smart person.
I can only write about two or three pages of fiction a day.
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Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.
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At the beginning, I really wanted to be home with my kid. I was a product of my generation. But in the suburbs, you are very isolated, really alone.
As soon as someone is coming from New York, I automatically think I have to get dressed up.
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Whether you're an obstetrician or a third-grade teacher or a real estate agent, you know when you're doing good work. You're passionate about it.