I’ve always told my children that Americans will tell you pretty much anything, but that convention dictates that we don’t like to talk money or politics. Susan Straight Read Quote
I love seeing America vote, through the prism of my older working class neighborhood in Riverside, California. Susan Straight Read Quote
More than half of my former students teach – elementary and high school, community college and university. I taught them to be passionate about literature and writing, and to attempt to translate that passion to their own students. They are rookie teachers, most likely to be laid off and not rehired, even though they are passionate. Susan Straight Read Quote
The two words, in the American lexicon, are never good. Pink slip. The first time I ever heard it when I was young was when Kaiser Steel handed out pink slips to many of my neighbors and relatives. Layoffs were about efficiency, sales figures for raw materials or refrigerators. Susan Straight Read Quote
My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance company where she worked and asked for a loan. Susan Straight Read Quote
I first drew the attention of my future husband when we were fourteen, on the freshman school bus for an epic field trip from Riverside, Calif. to Los Angeles, where we were taken to the L.A. Zoo as well as the Natural History Museum. Susan Straight Read Quote
The American fantasy of love is the ‘meet-cute,’ ‘Love at first sight,’ and ‘You had me at hello!’ The completely spontaneous version of accidental love, which doesn’t care about demographics and social compatibility. Susan Straight Read Quote
I’m trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don’t try to manipulate it too much. Susan Straight Read Quote
