Sue Miller
Sue Miller
Sue Milleris an American novelist and short story writer who has written a number of best-selling novels...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth29 November 1943
CountryUnited States of America
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My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer's disease. But I'd often thought, God, we were so lucky that was the order in which they died because she would have felt put upon.
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'Jane Eyre' must have been something I read six or seven times as an early adolescent. And 'Kristin Lavransdatter,' and 'Lorna Doone' when I was younger. My parents had a pretty rich library, no jackets on any of the books, so no descriptions. You just pulled something off the shelf and started to read it.
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I wrote a novel in my early twenties; I won a high school prize - my short story got published, and I got 50 dollars, which was a huge deal.
main men people
People are always thinking that I'm the main character in my books, but each one has been different, and sometimes they've been men.
people
We've had many people come in and say they had no idea.
deaths felt fortunate inside ours turned
Our whole home, our lives, got turned inside out. We just felt fortunate ours was still here, fortunate there were no deaths or anything like that.
less written
I think I'm less disciplined than a lot of other people, I'm afraid, but on the other hand, I've written a lot of books.
pull type
I write all over the house. Because I write in longhand, I can go anywhere I want... I have some notebooks here and there, and then I type it in and pull it out, and I do the revisions all over the place.
bit hard life
My writing life is always a bit disorganized. It's hard for me to get going, but sometimes, once I begin, I go like the wind.
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We had one man out there trying to snag the flag with a fishing pole, since we couldn't use the rope to bring down the Mexican flag. I think all of our residents were upset about this, and we have a very diversified population here.
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We worked hard to find the right site for the skate park.
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Basically we had outgrown our facility. And we were landlocked and didn't have room to grow.
inner written
Everything I've written I see in a very precise way and I hear in my inner ear.
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Two of these trucks will travel nationwide, two of these trucks will travel along the I-5 corridor. I know we'll get tips on these cases.