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Sue Miller quotes: Everything I've written I see in a very precise way and I hear in my inner ear.

Everything I've written I see in a very precise way and I hear in my inner ear.

Sue Miller quotes: I wrote a novel in my early twenties; I won a high school prize - my short story got published, and I got 50 dollars, which was a huge deal.

I wrote a novel in my early twenties; I won a high school prize - my short story got published, and I got 50 dollars, which was a huge deal.

Sue Miller quotes: A secret weighs on us, a terrible secret weighs with a terrible weight.

A secret weighs on us, a terrible secret weighs with a terrible weight.

Sue Miller quotes: People are always thinking that I'm the main character in my books, but each one has been different, and sometimes they've been men.

People are always thinking that I'm the main character in my books, but each one has been different, and sometimes they've been men.

Sue Miller quotes: There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.

There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.

Sue Miller quotes: Kids need to see that Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to us. And they need to know it can happen to them.

Kids need to see that Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to us. And they need to know it can happen to them.

Sue Miller quotes: I tried to talk about it to Lily, to make her see that for once, I'd earned a feeling. [p. 174]

I tried to talk about it to Lily, to make her see that for once, I'd earned a feeling. [p. 174]

Sue Miller quotes: But even then I knew how it was going to be, I could feel the coming silence in the long, poisonous pauses that expanded as the night progressed.

But even then I knew how it was going to be, I could feel the coming silence in the long, poisonous pauses that expanded as the night progressed.

Sue Miller quotes: We want. When we stop wanting, we feel dead and want to want more. (p.232)

We want. When we stop wanting, we feel dead and want to want more. (p.232)

Sue Miller quotes: If you just stick your big toe in the water when it comes to helping someone else, you'll get one big toe's worth of life change.

If you just stick your big toe in the water when it comes to helping someone else, you'll get one big toe's worth of life change.

Sue Miller quotes: The words make our silences easierthey're the current that runs under them.

The words make our silences easier
they're the current that runs under them.

Sue Miller quotes: I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy ... that makes you unkind.

I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy ... that makes you unkind.

Sue Miller quotes: My writing life is always a bit disorganized. It's hard for me to get going, but sometimes, once I begin, I go like the wind.

My writing life is always a bit disorganized. It's hard for me to get going, but sometimes, once I begin, I go like the wind.

Sue Miller quotes: I think I'm less disciplined than a lot of other people, I'm afraid, but on the other hand, I've written a lot of books.

I think I'm less disciplined than a lot of other people, I'm afraid, but on the other hand, I've written a lot of books.