330 Quotes by Susan Orlean

We do a lot of bird-watching up in the country, but we almost never have a chance to people-watch. There simply aren't enough human beings up here: there is nowhere you can park yourself with a cup of coffee and observe the species on parade.

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.

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.

Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The one thing I've discovered about social media is that people love answering questions. In fact, it sometimes feels like at any given moment, millions of people are online who have been waiting for exactly the question you fire off.