Susan Straight Quotes
I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.
Quotes to Explore
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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Travel teaches as much as books.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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The wise are above books.
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I don't read a lot of books.
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The image I had was that Oprah books were fluffy.
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My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
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I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book.
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Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival.
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Maybe she would have done more good as a playwright than as a doctor, after all - clichés were like plaque in the arteries of the imagination, they clogged the sense of what was possible. Maybe if enough people had worked to demolish clichés, the world wouldn't have ended.
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During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism.
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You can do a movie for Disney or not. People will still ask you inappropriate questions. So in order to answer it, do I feel like there's a difference in promoting it? Apparently not.
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I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.
