Susan Minot Quotations

The teenager's room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for her. Here, she can reflect.

The idea that there is a family somewhere who functions is an odd concept.

Success did change me. You don't want it to, but it does.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

Recklessness is par for the course when you're 25.

Preserving that privacy between a writer and the work is important. You have to shut out all those voices that have reacted to your work.

In general, my own experience of writing an adaptation of 'Evening' gave me a chance to get into different parts of the book.

I don't consider the first-world concerns any less important than the third-world ones.

Families are endlessly fascinating. We all have one, and they have a great impact on who we are and what we do - Freudian as that is.

When I look through my sketchbooks, they bring back moments that I would otherwise have completely forgotten.