After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even know the whole of it! Perhaps she should have written some …

- Susan Minot

She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It wasn't true. It was o…

- Susan Minot

Change and renewal are themes in life, arent they? We keep growing throughout life.

- Susan Minot

The word dysfunction has, I think, served its purpose and now has lost its meaning. Every family, like every person, is imperfect, after all. The ide…

- Susan Minot

Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder and a little longer. And…

- Susan Minot

...it occurred to her how some people continued through no design of one's own to be in one's life while others might initially enter in a sort of bl…

- Susan Minot

Between children and parents there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

- Susan Minot

Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.

- Susan Minot

I learned that if you love a boy you are no longer free. The boy may become more important than your own self and if it is so, you will find trouble …

- Susan Minot