Susan Isaacs > Quotes

“Keep in mind that the only person to write for is yourself.Tell the story you most desperately want to read.”
― Susan Issacs

“I hate alliterative names. They suck.”
― Susan Isaacs, Compromising Positions

“She has been excessively cheery. In a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, that is always a sign of a fairly severe depression.”
― Susan Isaacs, After All These Years

“An excess of fiction could make reality seem supremely dull with its crappy dialogue and lack of coincidences.”
― Susan Isaacs, Takes One to Know One

“definite. Naturally, how open-minded you”
― Susan Isaacs, As Husbands Go

“No,” I said. “He’s a Rabinowitz. He’s a semi-decent”
― Susan Isaacs, As Husbands Go

“conferences. The table”
― Susan Isaacs, As Husbands Go

“The Williamsburg Bridge — a structure that does not inspire confidence in the profession of civil engineering.”
― Susan Isaacs, Long Time No See

“It has always been my belief that Protestants, born with innate knowledge of all things botanical, cannot help but think less of you if you have to ask.”
― Susan Isaacs, Long Time No See

“An offspring’s sigh of tedium is inaudible to all human ears except a parent’s. Boring your child who, at one point in his or her life, found you unspeakably delightful is humbling.”
― Susan Isaacs, Long Time No See

“Midsummer”
― Susan Isaacs, Takes One to Know One

“wanted his freedom. But then you could”
― Susan Isaacs, Long Time No See

“I had my head down pondering in what era cuticle maintenance became a thing women were supposed to do”
― Susan Isaacs, Takes One to Know One

“different way. He’s into random splotches.”
― Susan Isaacs, As Husbands Go

“The”
― Susan Isaacs, Compliments of a Friend

“When she thought creative, it was Jason Wu, not Rebecca Solnit.”
― Susan Isaacs, Takes One to Know One

“The Neville of Hornby Hours,”
― Susan Isaacs, Takes One to Know One

“of me. So I’d appreciate it if you’d ...”
― Susan Isaacs, Long Time No See

“The Eternal Army: The Terracotta Soldiers of the First Emperor.”
― Susan Isaacs, Takes One to Know One

“Poets got existential despair. TV writers got a dental plan”
― Susan Isaacs, Past Perfect

“Somewhere in the deepest south there is a finishing school that teaches young ladies a thousand and one wiles—from the moist-lips-slightly-parted-as-if-anticipating-fellatio-while-hanging-on-every-word trick to cunningly contrived cleavage displays.”
― Susan Isaacs, Long Time No See

“I'd never learned to work efficiently as long as I had an internet connection. If a paragraph or even a phrase in a manuscript I was considering rang the deja vu gong, I suspected plagiarism, so I'd search around for a bit. Maybe I'd find something, maybe not, but then I'd meander, unaware I was meandering. When I came back to reality, I'd discover I was watching a Lauryn Hill video or ordering a lilac-scented candle. Once I found myself studying a topographic map of Wyoming with no clue how I got there.”
― Susan Isaacs, Takes One to Know One

“But we didn’t have a path to follow. They do. Because we cleared it.” “Maybe they don’t like the path.”
― Susan Isaacs, Long Time No See

“I've never been able to understand this generation's infatuation with using last names a first names.”
― Susan Isaacs, Long Time No See

“An excess of fiction could make reality seem supremely dull with its crappy dialogue and lack of coincidences”
― Susan Isaacs, Takes One to Know One