Susan Straight Quotes
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Teachers spend most of their daytime hours with children. Teachers at every level, coaches, counselors, cafeteria workers and yes, custodians, spend their hours trying to make children's lives different, if not always better.
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The two words, in the American lexicon, are never good. Pink slip. The first time I ever heard it when I was young was when Kaiser Steel handed out pink slips to many of my neighbors and relatives. Layoffs were about efficiency, sales figures for raw materials or refrigerators.
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The American fantasy of love is the 'meet-cute,' 'Love at first sight,' and 'You had me at hello!' The completely spontaneous version of accidental love, which doesn't care about demographics and social compatibility.
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I still live in the same place I've lived all my life.
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I love seeing America vote, through the prism of my older working class neighborhood in Riverside, California.
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I've always told my children that Americans will tell you pretty much anything, but that convention dictates that we don't like to talk money or politics.
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I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.
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I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.
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Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and form, have writing lives we imagine in specific ways.
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I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't try to manipulate it too much.