155 Quotes by Susanna Moore

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

The world of womens' prisons is indeed a microcosm.

When I was nine, I was taught to ride a surfboard in Waikiki by the beach boy Rabbit Kekai.

Women are completely disadvantaged - despite what men will say. It is not a fair fight.

Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.

As a girl, I sat awestruck at the feet of Harriet Ne, author of 'Tales of Molokai'. It was she who used to say, 'I myself have seen it,' after telling a particularly hair-raising ghost story - a phrase that I borrowed for one of my titles.

'Calcutta is a pot of honey' means that in the first half of the nineteenth century, before the society became truly Victorian in feeling and tone, Bengal was a place to make money. The governor-generals returned to England rich men. It was a bountiful, lush, prosperous, easy place to make a fortune - in coal, in jute, and particularly cloth.

Each year, I await with dread the federal government's catalog of endangered and threatened species in the Hawaiian Islands, where I was raised and where I live.