58 Quotes by Susan Minot

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.

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

Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.

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

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.

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

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

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

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