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I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.
Susan Orlean
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Susan Orlean
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: October 31
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In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.
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I didn't want to talk, and I didn't think dogs could solve my problems. But they were so uncritical and un-judgmental. Sometimes when you're really blue, you don't want to talk, but you want that sense of companionship. I certainly enjoy that with my beasts.
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I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists in the record, but that's how Ohio winters seemed to me when I was little - silent, silver, endless, and dreamy.
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Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.
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I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.
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