Susan Minot
Susan Minot
Susan Minot /ˈmaɪnət/is an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 December 1956
CountryUnited States of America
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I love 'Anna Karenina.' It's in the top five books on my list. Tolstoy is unsurpassed in combining the grand with the trivial, that is, the small details which make up life.
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When I travel, I always take my Winsor & Newton watercolor kit, which is the size of a pack of cigarettes when folded up. I bought my first one in the 1980s. It was handy to bring on trips, and I packed it into a leather pouch along with a couple of brushes, a pencil, an eraser and paper.
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When I was younger, I suppose I was interested in checking out as much about writing as I could: bad, weird, irritating, even things not-to-my-taste. Now I am less open. I will decide after a few pages if I want to stay in the world of the book, and if I don't, I put it down. I have less time left.
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David Gulden captures animals in all their wonder and intrigue, without glorifying or romanticizing them. He knows Kenya's wildlife intimately, and it shows in the depth of his images. He has an artist's eye, which delivers beauty and transport in every picture.
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When I was in my teens and twenties, I could see friends expressing how radical they were, and I envied them, the way they lived, the way they dressed. Maybe there is a part of me that is reserved, even in rebellion.
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Writing chases after the senses, and conveys them in an altered form. When it is done well, the senses come alive in a new and captured form.
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Writing an adaptation is not so much a collaboration as it is a series of steps. You're basically creating a blueprint for something else.
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The teenager's room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for her. Here, she can reflect.
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The idea that there is a family somewhere who functions is an odd concept.
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Success did change me. You don't want it to, but it does.
bad people
So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.
Recklessness is par for the course when you're 25.
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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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In general, my own experience of writing an adaptation of 'Evening' gave me a chance to get into different parts of the book.