List of Susan Orlean Quotes

Being A Good Designer Certainly Doesn't Guarantee That You're Good At Business. It's Probably More Surprising When The Two Talents Coexist In One Person.

Writing About Fashion Forces You To Overcome The Nagging Feeling That Fashion Doesn't "matter", That It's Trivial Or Fleeting. I Just Look At It Anthropologically, Which Is Different From The Way I'd Write About Art.

I Think On A Day-to-day Basis, What Attracts Us In Coexisting With Another Living, Evolving Thing, Is That You Have A Relationship That's Different Than With A Piece Of Furniture. We Experience The Cycle Of Life Through These Other Beings.

Among All Life Forms, There Are Creatures With Charisma And Creatures Without. It's One Of Those Ineffable Qualities We Can't Quite Define, But We All Seem To Respond Similarly To.

I Think Part Of A Hero Construct Is Overcoming Loss, Or Being Abandoned, Or Having To Make Your Own Way In The World.

Writing About Someone Well Known Removes That Obligation Of Defending It As A Subject, But It Also Means That Some Of The Surprise And Freshness Is Already Gone. It's So Different - In Some Ways Much Harder For Me.

I've Definitely Taken A Lot Of Consolation From Animals In My Life. There Have Been Times When I've Been Really Sad, And They Gave Solace And Comfort And Companionability More Than A Person.

My Inspiration Is Really Very Simple: I'm Struck By Things That I Want To Know More About. I Really Do React Just As A Curious Person: Who Is This Person? What's The Story Behind This Situation? Why Do People Like This Or Dislike This Thing?

The Fact That Dogs Are Not People Means You Don't Have As Much Response To The Particulars.

Animals Can Seem More Pure. Without Complication, I Mean, Animals Are Selfless. What Animals Do For Us, They Do Out Of Instinct.

I Feel Somewhat Responsible For The Borders Books Bankruptcy.

I've Tried A Lot Of Different Apps To Manage Twitter On My Phone (i Use Hootsuite On My Laptop), But I Think The Official Twitter App Is Really Good.