American - Novelist | December 7, 1956 -
Longing, for everyone, is always there, isn't it? More intense at some times than others. You get closer to less longing - an odd metaphoric phrasing, I realize - then, you are further and longing more than ever again.
Susan Minot
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A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle.
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Our concerns aren't always appropriate or morally elevated.
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I first travelled to Africa at the end of 1996 and was immediately captivated. I had planned on a three-week trip, and I ended up staying two months.
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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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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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Families are endlessly fascinating. We all have one, and they have a great impact on who we are and what we do - Freudian as that is.
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The idea that there is a family somewhere who functions is an odd concept.
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Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.
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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.
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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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