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Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.
— Susan Orlean
There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.
— Susan Orlean
I would argue that it might be easier to endure loneliness than to endure the idea that you might disappear.
— Susan Orlean
I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.
— Susan Orlean
Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.
— Susan Orlean
You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.
— Susan Orlean
I love Japanese design and fabrics. I also love people who make clothes for mass consumption but do it well and cleverly.
— Susan Orlean
The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk.
— Susan Orlean
I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.
— Susan Orlean
The fact that dogs are not people means you don't have as much response to the particulars.
— Susan Orlean
The lesson we have yet to learn from dogs, that could sustain us, is that having no apprehension of the past or future is not limiting but liberating.
— Susan Orlean
I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of the fun for me as a writer.
— Susan Orlean
On the very same day that I ordered an iPad 2, I went shopping to buy myself a letter opener. I like to cover all my bases.
— Susan Orlean
Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it.
— Susan Orlean
I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.
— Susan Orlean
I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.
— Susan Orlean
Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?
— Susan Orlean
I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes.
— Susan Orlean
Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.
— Susan Orlean
I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.
— Susan Orlean
Animals can seem more pure. Without complication, I mean, animals are selfless. What animals do for us, they do out of instinct.
— Susan Orlean
I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.
— Susan Orlean
One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.
— Susan Orlean
There is nothing more melancholy than empty festive places.
— Susan Orlean
I've tried a lot of different apps to manage Twitter on my phone (I use Hootsuite on my laptop), but I think the official Twitter app is really good.
— Susan Orlean
I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery.
— Susan Orlean
I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.
— Susan Orlean
I have worked on PCs and on Macs and, while I have my preferences, I don't find it crippling to work on one rather than the other.
— Susan Orlean
The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.
— Susan Orlean
I think the responsibility of running a huge business, which happens if you become a successful designer, probably makes you more careful.
— Susan Orlean
Every single one of my books had its title changed almost as we were going to press, for all sorts of different reasons.
— Susan Orlean
I would like to make sleeping my new hobby, except that I'm too tired, really, to have a hobby. But a girl can always dream.
— Susan Orlean
You can find out anything you want about a car now, and especially every bit of information about the price, without relying on the dealers.
— Susan Orlean
I think coexisting with another life form is a very rich experience. It's why people keep plants and animals.
— Susan Orlean
Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life.
— Susan Orlean
Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.
— Susan Orlean
Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida
— Susan Orlean
A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.
— Susan Orlean
One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.
— Susan Orlean
Keeping animals, I have learned, is all about water. Who even knew chickens drank water? I didn't, but they do, and a lot.
— Susan Orlean
Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.
— Susan Orlean
I am unusually Halloween-attentive, because, as it happens, I was born on Halloween, so for me it has always been an occasion of great moment.
— Susan Orlean
When a machine can do something better and faster than a person can, I am happy to let the machine do it.
— Susan Orlean
I think part of a hero construct is overcoming loss, or being abandoned, or having to make your own way in the world.
— Susan Orlean
I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.
— Susan Orlean
An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.
— Susan Orlean
In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.
— Susan Orlean
I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.
— Susan Orlean