330 Quotes by Susan Orlean

One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.

Dogs really are perfect soldiers. They are brave and smart; they can smell through walls, see in the dark, and eat Army rations without complaint.

I love Japanese design and fabrics. I also love people who make clothes for mass consumption but do it well and cleverly.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists in the record, but that's how Ohio winters seemed to me when I was little - silent, silver, endless, and dreamy.

I think the responsibility of running a huge business, which happens if you become a successful designer, probably makes you more careful.

I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.

Being a good designer certainly doesn't guarantee that you're good at business. It's probably more surprising when the two talents coexist in one person.

In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.