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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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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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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It's nice to see more of those meaty female characters emerging because so often in the industry, it's always about the males.
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Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us.
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I feel like I'm really lucky.
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I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.
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I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.
