Susan Orlean
Susan Orlean
Susan Orleanis an American journalist and author. She has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992, and has contributed articles to many magazines including Vogue, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Outside...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth31 October 1955
CountryUnited States of America
writing long dresses
I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a long time ago, and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts, let alone neckties; it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something.
book thinking giving
I'm much more willing to buy a novel electronically by someone I don't know. Because if halfway through I think, I don't really like this, I can just stop. I can't throw books out, even if I think they're crummy. I feel like I've got to give it to the library. I've got to loan it to somebody, or I keep it on my shelf. It's like a plant.
mean animal selfless
Animals can seem more pure. Without complication, I mean, animals are selfless. What animals do for us, they do out of instinct.
writing pages
Most writing doesn’t take place on the page; it takes place in your head.
real mean thinking
I think the real reason is that life has no meaning. I mean, no obvious meaning. You wake up, you go to work, you do stuff. I think everybody's always looking for something a little unusual that can preoccupy them and help pass the time.
loneliness ideas might
I would argue that it might be easier to endure loneliness than to endure the idea that you might disappear.
children writing persistence
Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.
morning tired thinking
The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired.
littles little-bit ifs
If you had really loved something, wouldn't a little bit of it always linger?
spiritual gratitude smart
You have to appreciate the spiritual component of having an opportunity to do something as wondrous as writing. You should be practical and smart and you should have a good agent and you should work really, really hard. But you should also be filled with awe and gratitude about this amazing way to be in the world.
passion care want
I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.
fashion art writing
Writing about fashion forces you to overcome the nagging feeling that fashion doesn't "matter", that it's trivial or fleeting. I just look at it anthropologically, which is different from the way I'd write about art.
hiking machetes convicts
I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes.
crazy smart thinking
You could go crazy thinking of how unprivate our lives really are - the omnipresent security cameras, the tracking data on our very smart phones, the porous state of our Internet selves, the trail of electronic crumbs we leave every day.