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Everything I've written I see in a very precise way and I hear in my inner ear.
Sue Miller / Film Writer
Precise
Ear
Inner
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I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.
Sue Miller / Film Writer
Empathy
Kind
Thinking
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There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.
Sue Miller / Film Writer
Comforting
Illusion
Serious
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Kids need to see that Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to us. And they need to know it can happen to them.
Sue Miller / Film Writer
Jesus
Kids
Best Things
Needs
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I think I'm less disciplined than a lot of other people, I'm afraid, but on the other hand, I've written a lot of books.
Sue Miller / Film Writer
Disciplined
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My writing life is always a bit disorganized. It's hard for me to get going, but sometimes, once I begin, I go like the wind.
Sue Miller / Film Writer
Disorganized
Wind
Life Me Sometimes
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People are always thinking that I'm the main character in my books, but each one has been different, and sometimes they've been men.
Sue Miller / Film Writer
Each One
Main Character
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I wrote a novel in my early twenties; I won a high school prize - my short story got published, and I got 50 dollars, which was a huge deal.
Sue Miller / Film Writer
Dollars
Prize
Short Story
Twenties
Published
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It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please.
Sue Miller / Film Writer
Forgiving
Needs
Sight
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I try to work in the mornings. Usually, I write in my pajamas and slowly assemble myself. I don't get organized and sit down and get dressed. I do the laundry. I drift in and out of writing.
Sue Miller / Film Writer
Laundry
Organized
Pajamas
Writing
Assemble
Try
Work Myself Try
Down
Dressed
Slowly
Mornings
Sit
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I write all over the house. Because I write in longhand, I can go anywhere I want... I have some notebooks here and there, and then I type it in and pull it out, and I do the revisions all over the place.
Sue Miller / Film Writer
Longhand
Notebooks
Pull
There And Then
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Loss brings pain. Yes. But pain triggers memory. And memory is a kind of new birth, within each of us. And it is that new birth after long pain, that resurrection - in memory - that, to our surprise, perhaps, comforts us.
Sue Miller / Film Writer
Loss
Memories
Pain
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My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer's disease. But I'd often thought, God, we were so lucky that was the order in which they died because she would have felt put upon.
Sue Miller / Film Writer
Disease
Dramatic
Egocentric
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I always write my first draft in longhand, in lined notebooks. I move around the house, sitting where I like, and watch the words spool out in front of me, actually taking a lot of pleasure in the way they look in my strange handwriting on the page.
Sue Miller / Film Writer
Handwriting
Pleasure
Sitting
Strange
Always Me Look
Draft
Look Me Always
Front
Lined
Longhand
Notebooks
Page
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I was struck after 9/11 by what seemed the assumption that everyone bereaved by that event was suffering the same thing. I wanted to explore how individual grief is, how complicated, how colored by the complexity of the mourner's relationship with the person who's died.
Sue Miller / Film Writer
Relationship
Assumption
Complexity
Died
Grief
Individual
Colored
Event
Explore
Same Thing
Seemed
Struck
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'Jane Eyre' must have been something I read six or seven times as an early adolescent. And 'Kristin Lavransdatter,' and 'Lorna Doone' when I was younger. My parents had a pretty rich library, no jackets on any of the books, so no descriptions. You just pulled something off the shelf and started to read it.
Sue Miller / Film Writer
Jackets
Rich
Seven
Six
Adolescent
Younger
Descriptions
Pulled
Shelf
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There are things I read doing research, and there are certain books and writers I just love to read. There are books of Brian Morten's that I love, for instance. There's a wonderful book by an Australian writer named Helen Garner called 'The Children's Bach,' and I just love the way she uses language in it.
Sue Miller / Film Writer
Australian
Brian
Instance
Love Research Doing
Bach
Named
Garner
Uses
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I think the plasticity of the novel is its greatest challenge. There are no rules; there is no necessary form. You can know what you want it to be, or do, and still not know how to write it. There are endless possibilities, infinite choices. What voice should it be in? What events to start with? What characters will be part of it?
Sue Miller / Film Writer
Choices
Infinite
Novel
Voice
Rules
Challenge
Greatest Challenge
No Rules
Possibilities
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And I was remembering that time in our lives together, the time of those ritual walks. I was remembering the way it feels at just that moment when you begin to turn, when you’re poised exactly between the things in life you want to do and those you need to do, and it seems for a few blessed seconds that they are all going to be the same.
Sue Miller / Film Writer
Blessed
Things In Life
Together
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I suppose in our contemporary lives, our cumulative e-mails might constitute a kind of diary: that informal, moment-by-moment description of life as it goes by. . As I think of those notes now - what I wrote, what I said - it seems to me they danced across the surface just as my grandmother's diaries did - Anais Nin she wasn't, and I wasn't, either. Who is? Not even Anais Nin.
Sue Miller / Film Writer
Diaries
Grandmother
Thinking
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But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that vanish, that are taken away. We fix them in our minds forever by yearning, by pain, by crying out. Pain, the pain that seems unbearable at the time, is memory's first imprinting step, the cornerstone of the temple we erect inside us in memory of the dead. Pain is part of memory, and memory is a God-given gift.
Sue Miller / Film Writer
Memories
Pain
Taken
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But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come the person who reminds you of your own capacity to surprise yourself, to put at risk everything that’s dear to you. Who reminds you of the distances we have to bridge to begin to know anything about one another. Who reminds you that what seems to be—even about yourself—may not be. That like him, you need to be forgiven.
Sue Miller / Film Writer
Bridges
Distance
Risk
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And what if we’d been utterly open? Made jokes about the first wife? What if we’d been that kind of family? Well, I would have been different, surely. But not because I knew the secret. For it wasn’t the secret—the secret that wasn’t a secret anyway—that led to the austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of all, was the austerity. It had made secrets in my life too. Or silences, anyway, that became secrets. That became lies.
Sue Miller / Film Writer
Lying
Silence
Wife
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