Susan Orlean Quotes - Page 3

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• I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.

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  Mother, Party, Home

  "Bulge" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 15, 2010.

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• I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.

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  Advice, Realizing, Used

  "Advice" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 21, 2010.

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• You have to appreciate the spiritual component of having an opportunity to do something as wondrous as writing. You should be practical and smart and you should have a good agent and you should work really, really hard. But you should also be filled with awe and gratitude about this amazing way to be in the world.

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  Spiritual, Gratitude, Smart

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• Every single one of my books had its title changed almost as we were going to press, for all sorts of different reasons.

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  Book, Titles, Different

  "Named" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. July 19, 2010.

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• A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.

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  Fall, Sky, Snow

  "Snow Day" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 12, 2011.

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• I wonder what book signings will be like when most of the books we read are electronic. Will authors sign something else? A flyer, perhaps? A special kind of card devised for the purpose?

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  Book, Special, Cards

  "Paper Training" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 4, 2010.

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• I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes.

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  Hiking, Machetes, Convicts

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• I'm always mystified by the day-to-day workings of entities like Twitter that provide framework but not content, but I suppose it could be compared to the U.S. Postal Service, which manages to keep a lot of people employed doing lots of stuff other than writing letters.

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  Writing, People, Letters

  "Good Fortune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. March 20, 2011.

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• My inspiration is really very simple: I'm struck by things that I want to know more about. I really do react just as a curious person: who is this person? What's the story behind this situation? Why do people like this or dislike this thing?

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  Inspiration, Simple, People

  "Ask the Author Live: Susan Orlean on Jean Paul Gaultier". Liva chat, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2011.

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• I didn't want to talk, and I didn't think dogs could solve my problems. But they were so uncritical and un-judgmental. Sometimes when you're really blue, you don't want to talk, but you want that sense of companionship. I certainly enjoy that with my beasts.

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  Dog, Thinking, Blue

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We're fascinated by animals because it's almost like having Martians living among us. We can see some familiarity in them, but they're entirely different creatures.

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  Animal, Different, Creatures

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've used Twitter now and again to try to figure something out; it's an amazing resource. But I think you have to use it judiciously: it's a self-selected group, so it's important not to start thinking of it as the whole world.

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  Thinking, Self, Important

  "Ask the Author Live: Susan Orlean on Jean Paul Gaultier". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2011.

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• Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them. That's challenging, but then the piece is pure discovery.

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  Writing, Mean, Discovery

  "Ask the Author Live: Susan Orlean on Jean Paul Gaultier". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2011.

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• I approach stories as a private educational enterprise: I want to learn about something. I teach myself through research, reporting, and thinking, and then, when I feel like I know the story, I tell it to readers.

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  Educational, Thinking, Stories

  "Ask the Author Live: Susan Orlean on Jean Paul Gaultier". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2011.

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• I think the responsibility of running a huge business, which happens if you become a successful designer, probably makes you more careful.

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  Running, Responsibility, Successful

  "Ask the Author Live: Susan Orlean on Jean Paul Gaultier". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2011.

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• I love Japanese design and fabrics. I also love people who make clothes for mass consumption but do it well and cleverly.

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  Clothes, People, Design

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists in the record, but that's how Ohio winters seemed to me when I was little - silent, silver, endless, and dreamy.

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  Children, Winter, Ohio

  "Drifting" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2011.

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• I never thought very many people in the world were very much like John Laroche, but I realized more and more that he was only an extreme, not an aberration - that most people in some way or another do strive for something exceptional, something to pursue, even at their peril, rather than abide an ordinary life.

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  People, Way, Ordinary

  Susan Orlean (2000). “The Orchid Thief”, Ballantine Books

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• 'Brave' is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the glaring light of ad slogans and corporate public relations. I never thought about anything as brave anymore; it just seemed like a flabby, glib cliche.

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  Light, Brave, Thanks

  "Tim Hetherington, “Restrepo,” and Bravery" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 21, 2011.

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• Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida

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  Thinking, Florida, Order

  Susan Orlean (2000). “The Orchid Thief”, Ballantine Books

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• Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.

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  Children, Writing, Persistence

  "Advice" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 21, 2010.

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• I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.

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  Boredom, Flying, Training

  "In Flight" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2010.

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• I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.

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  Sports, Team, Believe

  "Football U." by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 7, 2011.

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• Who on earth is going to use 'utilize' in a text message, a whopping seven characters including the always-hard-to-type 'z,' when you can say the exact same thing in three characters? I can't think of a sentence in which 'use' can't replace 'utilize.'

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  Character, Thinking, Three

  "Wordy Rappinghood" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 8, 2010.

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• I heard a computer scientist the other day refer to playing with the Kinect as 'storytelling.' At first I thought that sounded a little high-minded, but after trying a few games I could see what she meant.

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  Games, Trying, Littles

  "Connected" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. December 17, 2010.

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