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For someone like me who's lived in the same place her whole life - I mean, I lived three blocks from where I was born, and I met my future husband in the eighth grade - there are always family stories and legends passed down.
- Susan Straight
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#Future
#Legends
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#Me
Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and form, have writing lives we imagine in specific ways.
- Susan Straight
#Admire
#Character
#Language
#Real
#Scene
I have not ever been able to decide how would my girls have fared if they came up in a different time?
- Susan Straight
#Decide
#Different
#How
#Time
#Up
My brother acquired his first gun when he was very young, from a recently-fled drug dealer's residence. Now, he lived in a rural orange-grove area, and he shot at coyotes who killed his animals and at drug runners who used the groves for transport. Sometimes he joked that he only shot what moved.
- Susan Straight
#Gun
#Rural
#Shot
#Sometimes
#Young
I never saw a gun until I was 24. I didn't grow up in Mayberry; I grew up in Southern California.
- Susan Straight
#Grow
#Gun
#Never
#Until
#Up
I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.
- Susan Straight
#About
#Books
#Myself
#Never
#Write
All I am is a writer and a mom.
- Susan Straight
#Am
#I Am
#Mom
#Writer
I still live in the same place I've lived all my life.
- Susan Straight
#Life
#Live
#My Life
#Place
#Still
The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there's 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you're a good listener, and you can imagine how someone's talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not?
- Susan Straight
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#Family
#Good
#Me
#People
I wrote a story about a man who is orphaned during the 1927 Mississippi River flood in Louisiana, and he's on the banks of levee, and he's starving. And there are other people starving, too. And he's so desperate, he's seven years old, that he finds a pig that's been abandoned. He kills it with a hammer, and he drags it back.
- Susan Straight
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#Man
#Old
#People
#River
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
#Children
#Money
#Politics
#Talk
#Will
All my best memories of my brother are in vehicles, speeding, predatory or celebratory. We were just made to drive. For the last 12 years of his life, he lived as caretaker of an orange grove. There, on 18 acres, my brother collected cars and trucks and motorcycles.
- Susan Straight
#Best
#Brother
#Drive
#Life
#Memories
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
#American
#Care
#Love Is
#Love
#Me
My mother and father split up when I was three and my brother was still in the womb.
- Susan Straight
#Father
#Mother And Father
#Mother
#Three
I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.
- Susan Straight
#Children
#Handwriting
#Legal
#More
#Two
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
#Born
#Company
#Father
#Finance
#Mother
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