Susan Orlean Quotes
Top 56 wise famous quotes and sayings by Susan Orlean
Susan Orlean Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Susan Orlean on Wise Famous Quotes.
There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.
I would argue that it might be easier to endure loneliness than to endure the idea that you might disappear.
I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.
Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.
I love Japanese design and fabrics. I also love people who make clothes for mass consumption but do it well and cleverly.
The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk.
I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.
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.
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.
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.
Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it.
I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.
I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.
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?
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.
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.
Animals can seem more pure. Without complication, I mean, animals are selfless. What animals do for us, they do out of instinct.
I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.
One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I think the responsibility of running a huge business, which happens if you become a successful designer, probably makes you more careful.
Every single one of my books had its title changed almost as we were going to press, for all sorts of different reasons.
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.
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.
I think coexisting with another life form is a very rich experience. It's why people keep plants and animals.
Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life.
Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.
A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.
One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.
Keeping animals, I have learned, is all about water. Who even knew chickens drank water? I didn't, but they do, and a lot.
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.
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.
When a machine can do something better and faster than a person can, I am happy to let the machine do it.
I think part of a hero construct is overcoming loss, or being abandoned, or having to make your own way in the world.
I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.
An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.
In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.
I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.