Sue Miller Quotes

I think the plasticity of the novel is its greatest challenge. There are no rules; there is no necessary form. You can know what you want it to be, or do, and still not know how to write it. There are endless possibilities, infinite choices. What voice should it be in? What events to start with? What characters will be part of it?

Sue Miller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 29, 1943

Topics

ChallengeStartChoicesVoiceThink

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

Jim Hightower

TodayAmericanFarmerDifference

There's no point in using someone else's characters if you're going to turn them into your own vision. You have to be loyal to that person's worldview and sensitive to what they would and wouldn't have done with their characters, and how explicit or inexplicit they would've been.

Jill Paton Walsh

VisionSomeoneYouPersonDoneTurn

Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.

Joe Torre

SuccessMistakesTeamLookingYou

We all have a limited amount of good judgment.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

GoodJudgmentGood JudgmentLimited

I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

Anna Chlumsky

FoodMeAccountingSomeoneActing

I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it seemed to have so many parts of life I really enjoyed. The people there seemed to prize literature and art, food and drinking, a more hedonistic way of living.

Rosecrans Baldwin

LifeArtFoodPeopleMovingLiving

I never wanted to get paid by the hour. If I was going to do more work than another guy, I wanted to get paid more.

Jason Blum

WorkMoreNeverGuyGoingPaid

These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact that their orientation - sexual orientation's been held against them is a blot on our nation's reputation.

Dick Durbin

WomenMenReputationCountryRisk

Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To own is to have, to have is to hold, and to hold is to show off.

Douglas Rushkoff

AppleOwnShow OffChinaHoldOff

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

Christopher Darden

JusticeCompassionLawLegalWithout

Motherhood may be a 'killer' when it comes to becoming a Master of the Universe, but among middle-class mothers, even after that touch of baby's lips to bosom, a big and growing number find themselves able - and often required - to bring home the family bacon.

Chrystia Freeland

FamilyHomeBabyMotherhoodUniverse

If you look at everything I do - even in 'Boo!' there's a message, and it's always 'faith, family, forgiveness.' That's the greatest gift that I've been given. I can get a message to the very people I grew up with, the millions who love what I do.

Tyler Perry

FamilyLoveForgivenessFaithPeople

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