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
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.
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.
beginnings larger love nine overall series stories
'Monkeys' is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. 'Folly' is a series of vignettes all put together to tell a larger story. In 'Lust and Other Stories,' there are nine stories - three, three, three; the beginnings of love, the middles, and the afters.
otherwise
When I look through my sketchbooks, they bring back moments that I would otherwise have completely forgotten.
endlessly great
Families are endlessly fascinating. We all have one, and they have a great impact on who we are and what we do - Freudian as that is.
adaptation chance experience gave parts
In general, my own experience of writing an adaptation of 'Evening' gave me a chance to get into different parts of the book.
preserving shut voices work
Preserving that privacy between a writer and the work is important. You have to shut out all those voices that have reacted to your work.
bad people
So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.
hassles life room
The teenager's room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for her. Here, she can reflect.