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
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.
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.'
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.
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.
stranger ifs felt
...[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been.
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.
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.