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Susan Orlean
Susan Orlean
American Journalist
Born: Oct 31, 1955
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Related authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison
We do a lot of bird-watching up in the country, but we almost never have a chance to people-watch. There simply aren't enough human beings up here: there is nowhere you can park yourself with a cup of coffee and observe the species on parade. Susan Orlean
You Yourself Coffee Country Enough Parade Park Never Observe Simply Almost Lot Cup Up Human Human Beings Beings Species Nowhere Here Chance
When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway. Susan Orlean
Sunday Spent Broadway Eating Window Scene Still Up Hobby Manhattan Afternoon Many Lived Starbucks Seat
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. Susan Orlean
Me Winter Remember Three Lost Silent Record Seemed Silver Small Small Child Could Winters Days Namely How Exists Child Get Snow Endless Ohio Little Them Deep
There are cultures that believe having your photograph taken steals your soul. I don't think there is a stolen soul in a picture, but still - why is it so hard to throw them away? Susan Orlean
Soul Picture Believe Think Photograph Having Steals Throw Taken Still Cultures Stolen Them Your Hard Why Away
I had forgotten how thrilling a snow day is until my son started school, and as much as he loves it, he swoons at the idea of a free day arriving unexpectedly, laid out like a gift. Susan Orlean
Day Son Gift School Free Out Thrilling Had He Idea Like Until How Arriving Snow Unexpectedly Forgotten Laid Loves Much Started
When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse. Then cars became available, and their convenience, compared to horses, was undeniable. Susan Orlean
Future Car Will Before Think Everyone Books About Horse Horses Had Undeniable Became Existed Wonder Often Convenience Automobiles Available Then Compared
Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life. Susan Orlean
Life Internet Made Unlimited Paralysis Feature Comfortable Overload Due Option Modern Modern Life Form Choice Standard
Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true. Susan Orlean
Nature Be True Feeling Living Every Corny Harmony Earth About True Said Being Happens Cycle Seasons Thing
When I was a kid, Halloween was strictly a starchy-vegetable-only holiday, with pumpkins and Indian corn on the front stoop; there was nothing electric, nothing inflatable, nothing with latex membranes or strobes. Susan Orlean
Halloween Nothing Corn Strictly Latex Kid Indian Front Stoop Holiday Electric
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
Alone Time Thought Long Long Time Unless Once Wearing Dress Something Write Had No-One He Long Time Ago Knew Weird Like Because Boyfriend Shirt Shirts Which Wore Really Who Ever Grown-Up
Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know. Susan Orlean
Beautiful Knowledge Wish Few Know Beautiful Thing Few Things Thing Things
I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of writers' block: So much space! So many plants to choose among, and yet none of them seem quite right! Susan Orlean
Me Garden Space Plants Spring Sight Seem Gives Writers Missed Calling Empty None Editor Block Equivalent Beds Quite Them Might Much Choose Many Among Right
I love tearing things out of the ground. I love digging and discarding. I love pruning. In fact, I love pruning so much that I once gave myself carpal-tunnel syndrome because I attacked a trumpet vine with so much dedication. Susan Orlean
Love Myself Dedication Gave Digging Syndrome Once Out Fact Attacked Because Trumpet Pruning In Fact Much Ground Tearing Vine Things
I would like to make sleeping my new hobby, except that I'm too tired, really, to have a hobby. But a girl can always dream. Susan Orlean
Tired Girl Sleeping Too Dream Would Except New Like Make Always Hobby Really
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. Susan Orlean
Me Writing Law School Father Three Books Law School Had Go Continue Been Years After Urge Full-Time Even Twenty Published
There are many bad things in this world of ours, but the use of the word 'monetize' has to rank high among them. Also, 'incentivize.' Actually, all the '-ize' words, like 'contextualize' and 'utilize' and 'prioritize.' And - this is almost too horrible to type - 'juniorize.' Susan Orlean
Words World Word Bad Things Too Type Rank Ours High Bad Horrible Almost Like Also Prioritize Them Use Many Utilize Among Actually Things
Every single one of my books had its title changed almost as we were going to press, for all sorts of different reasons. Susan Orlean
Single Every Changed Books Press Had Almost Sort Were Going Different Title Different Reasons Reasons
I had never considered using a hashtag anywhere other than on Twitter, but now I'm inspired. Text messages have always seemed a little flat to me, so the murmuring Greek chorus of a hashtag might be a perfect way to liven them up and give them a bit of dimension. Susan Orlean
Me Twitter Other Considered Way Bit Dimension Seemed Give Perfect Inspired Never Had Messages Always Text Up Greek Than Flat Anywhere Little Them Might Using Chorus Now Murmuring
The one thing I've discovered about social media is that people love answering questions. In fact, it sometimes feels like at any given moment, millions of people are online who have been waiting for exactly the question you fire off. Susan Orlean
Love You Waiting People Sometimes Social Media Fire One Thing Exactly About Online Given Fact Feels Like Answering Been Discovered Question Off Questions Any Any Given Moment In Fact The One Thing Social Moment Who Media Thing Millions Millions Of People
Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it. Susan Orlean
You Experience Car Promise Entire Rattling Contact Come Used Company Based Buying
I've loved some gadgets that were not worthy, and I've loved gadgets that I would have loved more if I had waited for their developers to figure out how to really make them work, but I loved them anyway. Susan Orlean
Work Gadgets Out Worthy Would Some More Had Developers Make How Were Waited Loved Anyway Them Really Figure
In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years. Susan Orlean
Music Myself Past Musical Course iPod Years Listened Wandering Transferring Found
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