Suzanne > Suzanne's Quotes

“Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.”
― Alan Gurganus

“A writer should always feel like he's in over his head”
― Michael Cunningham

“If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write. ”
― Lorrie Moore

“Being a doctor he didn't want for choices, but also being a doctor he understood the fragility of bone and sinew that encompassed the even more fragile organ of the heart. He envisioned Therese's as being wound in intricate, tight, vinelike veins that he would slowly make sense of and unravel.”
― Tara L. Masih, Where the Dog Star Never Glows

“If I had known what it meant to love, I wouldn't have had children, because once we love, we love forever, like Uncle Two's wife, Step-aunt Two, who can't stop loving her gambler son, the son who is burning up the family fortune like a pyromaniac.”
― Kim Thúy, Ru

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

“All the literature of this century is somewhat burdened by the theme of uprootedness.”
― Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls

“If your parents disapprove of you and are cunning with their disapproval, there will never come a new dawn when you can become convinced of your own value. There is no fixing a damaged childhood. The best you can hope for is to make the sucker float.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides