Susanna Moore Quotes

When I was 23, I went to work for Jack Nicholson reading scripts. Later, I was married to a production designer named Richard Sylbert. So I lived in Los Angeles for ten years.

‘In the Cut’ was not what readers expected of me. Before it was published, I was seen as a women‘s writer, which meant that I wrote movingly about flowers and children.

Writing can’t be taught.

I was betting on cockfights in the Filipino workers‘ camps when I was 11.

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

It is possible to say that all of my books concern themselves with the notion of what it means to be female – whether it is in New York City in 2000 or Calcutta in 1836. In that way, my books really are the same.

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

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.

While I was writing ‘The Big Girls,’ I had to take a big breath each morning and calm myself sufficiently to once again enter that world. But friends tell me that it is the only thing that really interests me. They say that I like to be upset.

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

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.

The history of Hawaii may be seen as a story of arrivals.

I lived in Calcutta for five months in 1999. While I was there, I read many journals, diaries, collections of letters and histories.

People will be able to survive, of course, without honeycreepers and monk seals. But if the wolf spider is in trouble, we are in trouble, too.