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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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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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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I have great admiration for the fact – checking team. Considering it takes me years to gather all the facts in my books, it's a daunting task for the fact – checkers to review all of that material in a matter of weeks.
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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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Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library.
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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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What I've done for the last ten years is develop high profile entertainment properties for animation, so it's kind of funny to be able to create my own book to already know how I'd want to develop it for animation and live action.
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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
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The most exciting rock 'n' roll band of the last 50 years who are still on the road today.
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When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.
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My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!
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I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.
