American - Writer | October 19, 1960 -
My brother acquired his first gun when he was very young, from a recently-fled drug dealer's residence. Now, he lived in a rural orange-grove area, and he shot at coyotes who killed his animals and at drug runners who used the groves for transport. Sometimes he joked that he only shot what moved.
Susan Straight
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I have not ever been able to decide how would my girls have fared if they came up in a different time?
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I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.
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Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and form, have writing lives we imagine in specific ways.
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I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't try to manipulate it too much.
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It's always fun to talk about a novel.
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In 'Love Story,' Oliver Barrett IV comes from generations of wealth and privilege, but when he meets working-class Jennifer Cavilleri, he can't resist. When they marry, his father disowns him, but they struggle on in love, until she's diagnosed with cancer and they can't afford the costly treatments.
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I first drew the attention of my future husband when we were fourteen, on the freshman school bus for an epic field trip from Riverside, Calif. to Los Angeles, where we were taken to the L.A. Zoo as well as the Natural History Museum.
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My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance company where she worked and asked for a loan.
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Teachers spend most of their daytime hours with children. Teachers at every level, coaches, counselors, cafeteria workers and yes, custodians, spend their hours trying to make children's lives different, if not always better.
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More than half of my former students teach - elementary and high school, community college and university. I taught them to be passionate about literature and writing, and to attempt to translate that passion to their own students. They are rookie teachers, most likely to be laid off and not rehired, even though they are passionate.
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I love seeing America vote, through the prism of my older working class neighborhood in Riverside, California.
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