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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I was struck after 9/11 by what seemed the assumption that everyone bereaved by that event was suffering the same thing. I wanted to explore how individual grief is, how complicated, how colored by the complexity of the mourner's relationship with the person who's died.
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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.
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I try to work in the mornings. Usually, I write in my pajamas and slowly assemble myself. I don't get organized and sit down and get dressed. I do the laundry. I drift in and out of writing.
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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.
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Everything I've written I see in a very precise way and I hear in my inner ear.
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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?
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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.
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There are things I read doing research, and there are certain books and writers I just love to read. There are books of Brian Morten's that I love, for instance. There's a wonderful book by an Australian writer named Helen Garner called 'The Children's Bach,' and I just love the way she uses language in it.
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This will not only replace what you have now, it will drastically improve what you have now.