Susan Minot /ˈmaɪnət/ (born 7 December 1956) is an American novelist and short story writer. Read full biography of Susan Minot →
In general, my own experience of writing an adaptation of 'Evening' gave me a chance to get into different parts of the book.
Most fiction comes from your experience.
Our concerns aren't always appropriate or morally elevated.
Preserving that privacy between a writer and the work is important. You have to shut out all those voices that have reacted to your work.
Recklessness is par for the course when you're 25.
So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.
Success did change me. You don't want it to, but it does.
The idea that there is a family somewhere who functions is an odd concept.
The teenager's room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for her. Here, she can reflect.
When I look through my sketchbooks, they bring back moments that I would otherwise have completely forgotten.
Writing an adaptation is not so much a collaboration as it is a series of steps. You're basically creating a blueprint for something else.
Writing chases after the senses, and conveys them in an altered form. When it is done well, the senses come alive in a new and captured form.
A lot of readers want characters to behave in a responsible way, or they want to understand the characters' dilemma and act, in a way, on their... →
Susan Minot /ˈmaɪnət/ (born 7 December 1956) is an American novelist and short story writer.