Susan Orlean Quotes About Writing

• Simplemente tienes que amar la escritura, y tienes que recordarte a menudo que la amas.

  Susan Orlean

  Escribir, simplemente amar

• Escribir una frase que suene exactamente como uno quiere es una maravillosa sensación de dominio.

  Susan Orlean

  Escritura, Sonido, Maestría

• Incluso después de haber publicado tres libros y de llevar veinte años escribiendo a tiempo completo, mi padre siguió insistiendo en que estudiara Derecho.

  Susan Orlean

  Padre, Libro, Escritura

  "Advice" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 21, 2010.

• There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to. It's like trying to write a song, making tiny tweaks, reading it out loud, shifting things to make it sound a certain way... Sometimes it feels like digging out of a hole, but sometimes it feels like flying. When it's working and the rhythm's there, it does feel like magic to me.

  Susan Orlean

  Song, Reading, Writing

• I really believed that anything at all was worth writing about if you cared about it enough, and that the best and only necessary justification for writing any particular story was that I cared about it.

  Susan Orlean

  Writing, Stories, Enough

  "The Bullfighter Checks Her Make-Up". Book by Susan Orlean, 2010.

• Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.

  Susan Orlean

  Children, Writing, Persistence

  "Advice" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 21, 2010.

• A los escritores les gusta escribir, y me interesan las distintas formas de hacerlo: corto, largo, a bocados, sobre la marcha o con esmero.

  Susan Orlean

  Escribir, Largo, Hecho

  "Why a Blog?" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. March 16, 2010.

• 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.

  Susan Orlean

  Moda, Arte, Escritura

  "Ask the Author Live: Susan Orlean on Jean Paul Gaultier". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2011.

• La mayor parte de la escritura no tiene lugar en la página, sino en la cabeza.

  Susan Orlean

  Escritura, Páginas

  Twitter post from Jan 7, 2013

• Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them. That's challenging, but then the piece is pure discovery.

  Susan Orlean

  Writing, Mean, Discovery

  "Ask the Author Live: Susan Orlean on Jean Paul Gaultier". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2011.

• Cuando investigas, estás aprendiendo. Cuando escribes, enseñas.

  Susan Orlean

  Enseñanza, Escritura

• 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.

  Susan Orlean

  Escribir, Significa, Diferente

  "Ask the Author Live: Susan Orlean on Jean Paul Gaultier". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2011.

• I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.

  Susan Orlean

  Writing, Pieces, Magazines

  "Why a Blog?" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. March 16, 2010.

• Enseño una clase de escritura de no ficción en la Universidad de New York, y uno de mis grandes placeres es decidir el programa de estudios.

  Susan Orlean

  New York, Writing, Class

  "An Education" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. March 15, 2011.

• I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a long time ago, and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts, let alone neckties; it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something.

  Susan Orlean

  Writing, Long, Dresses

  "Quirk" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 22, 2010.

• I'm always mystified by the day-to-day workings of entities like Twitter that provide framework but not content, but I suppose it could be compared to the U.S. Postal Service, which manages to keep a lot of people employed doing lots of stuff other than writing letters.

  Susan Orlean

  Escritura, Personas, Letras

  "Good Fortune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. March 20, 2011.

• Like writing, running is so much about mind over matter. There are times when you have to override the discomfort and keep pushing. That capacity to endure and then prevail is just amazing.

  Susan Orlean

  Running, Writing, Mind

• Tienes que apreciar el componente espiritual de tener la oportunidad de hacer algo tan maravilloso como escribir. Debes ser práctico e inteligente, tener un buen agente y trabajar muy, muy duro. Pero también debes estar lleno de asombro y gratitud por esta increíble forma de estar en el mundo.

  Susan Orlean

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Smart

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