Susanna Moore
Susanna Moore
Susanna Mooreis an American writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth9 December 1945
CountryUnited States of America
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The chance of any species reaching and then surviving on an island as distant as one of the Hawaiian chain is infinitesimal, but despite the extraordinary odds, plants and seeds found their way ashore, carried by the tide or blown by trade winds, inside birds or in their feathers, in the branches of trees and in the jetsam of sunken ships.
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'The Big Girls' has always seemed to me to be a story about different kinds of families - a divorced mother with a child; a father with his child and his girlfriend; a mother of three children, suffering from postpartum depression; and the rigid artificial families maintained by women in prison - all potentially perilous.
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I have to admit that I was very happy to finish 'In the Cut,' and happy not to return to it.
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I lived in Calcutta for five months in 1999. While I was there, I read many journals, diaries, collections of letters and histories.
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I was betting on cockfights in the Filipino workers' camps when I was 11.
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People will be able to survive, of course, without honeycreepers and monk seals. But if the wolf spider is in trouble, we are in trouble, too.
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The history of Hawaii may be seen as a story of arrivals.
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The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.
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When I was nine, I was taught to ride a surfboard in Waikiki by the beach boy Rabbit Kekai.
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Women are completely disadvantaged - despite what men will say. It is not a fair fight.
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As a girl, I sat awestruck at the feet of Harriet Ne, author of 'Tales of Molokai'. It was she who used to say, 'I myself have seen it,' after telling a particularly hair-raising ghost story - a phrase that I borrowed for one of my titles.
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Each year, I await with dread the federal government's catalog of endangered and threatened species in the Hawaiian Islands, where I was raised and where I live.
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'Forever Amber,' written by Kathleen Winsor in 1944, was banned in Boston at the time of its publication as obscene and offensive. This alone would have been enough to excite my interest, but in 1956, it was sitting inoffensively on the shelves of the small country library on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii, where my family spent its summers.
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It is possible to say that all of my books concern themselves with the notion of what it means to be female - whether it is in New York City in 2000 or Calcutta in 1836. In that way, my books really are the same.