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
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
opposites people changed
She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It wasn't true. It was only through other people that one ever did change.
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.
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Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.
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.
struggle persons
A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle.
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.