Susan Straight Quotes
I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.
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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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We agree that man was not created to survive in space.
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I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.
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Inflation is not all bad. After all, it has allowed every American to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving.
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
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I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.
