Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter, but it rarely ever rings.

Susan Orlean's Popular Quotes

One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.

- Susan Orlean

I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does n…

- Susan Orlean

There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.

- Susan Orlean

You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.

- Susan Orlean

I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery.

- Susan Orlean

The old orchid hunter lay back on his pillow, his body limp... 'You'll curse the insects,' he said at least, 'and you'll curse the natives... The sun…

- Susan Orlean

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

- Susan Orlean

An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.

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Most writing doesn’t take place on the page; it takes place in your head.

- Susan Orlean