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
early jackets parents pulled rich seven shelf six
'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.
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.
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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.
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.
inner written
Everything I've written I see in a very precise way and I hear in my inner ear.
characters endless events infinite necessary novel start voice
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?
assumption colored complexity explore individual relationship seemed struck
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.
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.
huge novel prize school won wrote
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.
among economic human social
among the most fascinating of human social or economic inventions.
agreement except stop
It was too treacherous. It was unsafe. All the coaches, except one, were in agreement (to stop the meet).
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I always write my first draft in longhand, in lined notebooks. I move around the house, sitting where I like, and watch the words spool out in front of me, actually taking a lot of pleasure in the way they look in my strange handwriting on the page.
citizens driven motivated plan
This is not a plan that is motivated by what the citizens need or want. This plan is not driven by need.... but by greed.
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.