Sue Miller

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December 29, 1943 in The United States

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Sue Miller (born November 29, 1943 in Chicago) is an American writer who has authored a number of best-selling novels. Her duties as a single mother left her with little time to write for many years, and as a result she did not publish her first novel until 1986, after spending almost a decade in various fellowships and teaching positions. Since then, two of her novels have been made into feature films, and her book While I Was Gone was an Oprah's Book Club pick in 2000.

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Books by Sue Miller

Average rating: 3.43 · 29806 ratings · 2732 reviews · 40 distinct works

	While I Was Gone 348 avg rating — 14675 ratings — published 1999 — 30 editions	My rating:
	The Senator's Wife 317 avg rating — 4731 ratings — published 2008 — 19 editions	My rating:
	The Good Mother 366 avg rating — 2787 ratings — published 1986 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Family Pictures 373 avg rating — 1304 ratings — published 1991 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Lake Shore Limited 325 avg rating — 1557 ratings — published 2010 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Lost in the Forest 327 avg rating — 1362 ratings — published 2005 — 14 editions	My rating:
	World Below 340 avg rating — 1374 ratings — published 1993 — 16 editions	My rating:
	For Love 330 avg rating — 577 ratings — published 1993 — 23 editions	My rating:
	The Distinguished Guest 319 avg rating — 515 ratings — 9 editions	My rating:
	Inventing the Abbots and Other Stories 344 avg rating — 410 ratings — 11 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Sue Miller

“But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come the person who reminds you of your own capacity to surprise yourself, to put at risk everything that’s dear to you. Who reminds you of the distances we have to bridge to begin to know anything about one another. Who reminds you that what seems to be—even about yourself—may not be. That like him, you need to be forgiven.”
― Sue Miller, While I Was Gone

tags: forgiveness , love

23 people liked it

“I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.”
― Sue Miller, While I Was Gone

tags: desperation , empathy , unkindness

12 people liked it

“But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that vanish, that are taken away. We fix them in our minds forever by yearning, by pain, by crying out. Pain, the pain that seems unbearable at the time, is memory's first imprinting step, the cornerstone of the temple we erect inside us in memory of the dead. Pain is part of memory, and memory is a God-given gift.”
― Sue Miller

tags: while-i-was-gone

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