Susan Minot
Susan Minot
Susan Minot /ˈmaɪnət/is an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 December 1956
CountryUnited States of America
struggle persons
A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle.
way painting sometimes
Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least some of the new impressions of a foreign place, when its thrilling barrage can sometimes overwhelm you.
two three months
I first travelled to Africa at the end of 1996 and was immediately captivated. I had planned on a three-week trip, and I ended up staying two months.
way illness behave
Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.
growing renewal theme
Change and renewal are themes in life, arent they? We keep growing throughout life.
girl ideas stories
[The director's idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates. She is on a mission to lose her virginity. That's a mission easily accomplished, if that's the only mission. The story had to be more complicated than that. Because there is so little happening dramatically, there had to be something to keep you curious.
love-you fallen
I would have fallen in love with you anywhere.
waiting waste reason
There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.
should-have perspective gone
After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even know the whole of it! Perhaps she should have written some of it down...but really what would have been the point in that? Everything passed, she would too. This perspective offered her an unexpected clarity she nearly enjoyed, but even with this new clarity the world offered no more explanation for itself than it ever had.
stranger ifs felt
...[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been.
people design might
...it occurred to her how some people continued through no design of one's own to be in one's life while others might initially enter in a sort of blaze and seem to change everything but then might not stay around.
heart air snakes
After the briskness of loving, loving stops. And you roll over with death stretched out alongside you like a feather boa, or a snake, light as air, and you... you don't even ask for anything or try to say something to him because it's obviously your own damn fault. You haven't been able to- to what? To open your heart. You open your legs but can't, or don't dare anymore, to open your heart.
kissing boys poison
Boy poison - a boy's kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved more, like an addict.
across best delivered information minimalism satisfying trying
Minimalism has a connotation of being reductive, and not in the best way. 'Brevetist' is a better term. I'm trying to be as concise as possible and still getting across to the reader. When information is delivered in that way, it is very satisfying to me.