Writing Quotes by Susan Orlean

Susan Orlean

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.

Book

Father

Writing

Susan Orlean

I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.

Magazines

Pieces

Writing

Susan Orlean

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.

Dresses

Long

Writing

Susan Orlean

I really believed that anything at all was worth writing about if you cared about it enough, and that the best and only necessary justification for writing any particular story was that I cared about it.

Enough

Stories

Writing

Susan Orlean

I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.

Class

New York

Writing

Susan Orlean

I’m always mystified by the day-to-day workings of entities like Twitter that provide framework but not content, but I suppose it could be compared to the U.S. Postal Service, which manages to keep a lot of people employed doing lots of stuff other than writing letters.

Letters

People

Writing

Susan Orlean

Like writing, running is so much about mind over matter. There are times when you have to override the discomfort and keep pushing. That capacity to endure and then prevail is just amazing.

Mind

Running

Writing

Susan Orlean

Most writing doesn’t take place on the page; it takes place in your head.

Pages

Writing

Susan Orlean

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.

Children

Persistence

Writing

Susan Orlean

There’s a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.

Mastery

Sound

Writing

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Writing Quotes by Susan Orlean

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.

I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.

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.

I really believed that anything at all was worth writing about if you cared about it enough, and that the best and only necessary justification for writing any particular story was that I cared about it.

I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.

I’m always mystified by the day-to-day workings of entities like Twitter that provide framework but not content, but I suppose it could be compared to the U.S. Postal Service, which manages to keep a lot of people employed doing lots of stuff other than writing letters.

Like writing, running is so much about mind over matter. There are times when you have to override the discomfort and keep pushing. That capacity to endure and then prevail is just amazing.

Most writing doesn’t take place on the page; it takes place in your head.

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.

There’s a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.

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