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
bring chapter graduate pages realized remember school twelve workshop
I remember when I was in graduate school and someone in workshop would say, 'I'm going to bring in a chapter of my novel.' The thought that someone could think they'd write a whole long thing... I could only see twelve pages ahead. But then I realized that if you could see twelve more after that, you can start.
backed felt gaps graduate literary mostly school studied zero
I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because I felt gaps in my literary background. I studied mostly twentieth-century English literature in college, so I thought, 'Maybe I'll go back for my writing.'
books combining details five grand life love tolstoy top
I love 'Anna Karenina.' It's in the top five books on my list. Tolstoy is unsurpassed in combining the grand with the trivial, that is, the small details which make up life.
along bought bring cigarettes couple handy leather newton pack size travel watercolor
When I travel, I always take my Winsor & Newton watercolor kit, which is the size of a pack of cigarettes when folded up. I bought my first one in the 1980s. It was handy to bring on trips, and I packed it into a leather pouch along with a couple of brushes, a pencil, an eraser and paper.
envied expressing maybe radical teens
When I was in my teens and twenties, I could see friends expressing how radical they were, and I envied them, the way they lived, the way they dressed. Maybe there is a part of me that is reserved, even in rebellion.
basically blueprint series
Writing an adaptation is not so much a collaboration as it is a series of steps. You're basically creating a blueprint for something else.
captured chases conveys
Writing chases after the senses, and conveys them in an altered form. When it is done well, the senses come alive in a new and captured form.
kindness love-is honor
There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.
looks littles film
Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder and a little longer. And you end up with a memento.
growing renewal theme
Change and renewal are themes in life, arent they? We keep growing throughout life.
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.
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.