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. Susan Orlean Read Quote
I once had a boyfriend who couldn’t write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a long time ago, and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts, let alone neckties; it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something. Susan Orlean Read Quote
Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn’t know. Susan Orlean Read Quote
I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom – a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training – but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news. Susan Orlean Read Quote
I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle – a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own – and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip. Susan Orlean Read Quote
I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of writers’ block: So much space! So many plants to choose among, and yet none of them seem quite right! Susan Orlean Read Quote
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. Susan Orlean Read Quote
Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience. Susan Orlean Read Quote
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. Susan Orlean Read Quote
There are many bad things in this world of ours, but the use of the word ‘monetize’ has to rank high among them. Also, ‘incentivize.’ Actually, all the ‘-ize’ words, like ‘contextualize’ and ‘utilize’ and ‘prioritize.’ And – this is almost too horrible to type – ‘juniorize.’ Susan Orlean Read Quote
