Susan Orlean Quotes

You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.

Susan Orlean

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• The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Long
  • War
  • Nuclear Weapons

• I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Think
  • Scary
  • Something

• The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Justice
  • Travel
  • Fight

• Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Prayer
  • Daily

• I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Work
  • Think
  • Child

• My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Sexy
  • Comfort
  • Too Much

• I am a big Bewitched fan... something about the way Elizabeth Montgomery twitched her nose.

  

  Barry Williams
  • Fan
  • Bewitched

• As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Win

• I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Country
  • Want
  • You

• I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Always
  • Enjoy
  • First-Person

• Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Long
  • Better
  • Year

• I'm the only person that has ever run a principle-based legislative body.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Body
  • Run
  • Legislative

• The common denominator is a love of music.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Music
  • Love
  • Common

• Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Music
  • American
  • Wind

• The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.

  

  Felix Frankfurter

• Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and honour can only be permanently safeguarded through concourse with other countries. And whereas nationalism scoffs at the idea of international laws and regulations, patriotism seeks to create such.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Country
  • Power

• Headliners, no matter the genre, usually are a person or band who has an ethos.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Band

• A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in the wastebasket." The assumption is that one or the other choice is the right move. No. Almost everything we say or think or do - or write - comes in that spacious human area bounded by something this side of the sublime and something above the unforgivable.

  

  William Stafford
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Moving

• We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Love
  • Know
  • Child

• No doubt, there are those who believe that judges - and particularly dissenting judges - write to hear themselves say, as it were, 'I, I, I.' And no doubt, there are also those who believe that judges are, like Joan Didion, primarily engaged in the writing of fiction. I cannot agree with either of those propositions.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Doubt

• I like rust on a nail, fog on a mountain. Clouds hide stars, rooms have doors, eyes close, and the same words that began love end it with changed emphasis.

  

  David Ignatow
  • Love
  • Eyes
  • Stars

• It's important that period films aren't seen as just a lovely visual exercise.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Important
  • Period
  • Exercise

• You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.

  

  Susan Orlean
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Remind