Top 22 Susanna Moore Quotes

#1. New York is like a big dinner party. You have to be very careful about what you say and do because you never know whose feet are touching under the table.

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#2. Writing can't be taught.

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#3. When I was 23, I went to work for Jack Nicholson reading scripts. Later, I was married to a production designer named Richard Sylbert. So I lived in Los Angeles for ten years.

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#4. When I was nine, I was taught to ride a surfboard in Waikiki by the beach boy Rabbit Kekai.

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#5. Transgressive to me means breaking the rules and sinning. I don't see myself as breaking the rules and sinning. I'm really interested in what it means to be female.

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#6. The belief that love is a finite essence that will eventually run out holds a certain logic for me even now, even if I am supposed to know better.

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#7. The history of Hawaii may be seen as a story of arrivals.

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#8. I was betting on cockfights in the Filipino workers' camps when I was 11.

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#9. People will be able to survive, of course, without honeycreepers and monk seals. But if the wolf spider is in trouble, we are in trouble, too.

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#10. The task of understanding the past is neverending.

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#11. The world of womens' prisons is indeed a microcosm.

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#12. It is possible to say that all of my books concern themselves with the notion of what it means to be female - whether it is in New York City in 2000 or Calcutta in 1836. In that way, my books really are the same.

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#13. I lived in Calcutta for five months in 1999. While I was there, I read many journals, diaries, collections of letters and histories.

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#14. Each year, I await with dread the federal government's catalog of endangered and threatened species in the Hawaiian Islands, where I was raised and where I live.

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#15. The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

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#16. I have to admit that I was very happy to finish 'In the Cut,' and happy not to return to it.

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#17. 'In the Cut' was not what readers expected of me. Before it was published, I was seen as a women's writer, which meant that I wrote movingly about flowers and children.

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#18. Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.

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#19. I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can't prove a memory any more than I can prove a dream.

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#20. As a girl, I sat awestruck at the feet of Harriet Ne, author of 'Tales of Molokai'. It was she who used to say, 'I myself have seen it,' after telling a particularly hair-raising ghost story - a phrase that I borrowed for one of my titles.

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#21. Women are completely disadvantaged - despite what men will say. It is not a fair fight.

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#22. While I was writing 'The Big Girls,' I had to take a big breath each morning and calm myself sufficiently to once again enter that world. But friends tell me that it is the only thing that really interests me. They say that I like to be upset.

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