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Susan Orlean is an American journalist known for her distinctive writing style and in-depth exploration of complex topics. Her work often focuses on unusual individuals and events, characterized by its insightful and accessible approach.

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“Among all life forms, there are creatures with charisma and creatures without. It's one of those ineffable qualities we can't quite define, but we all seem to respond similarly to.”

Seems Form Quality Creatures Charisma Ineffable

Author:Susan Orlean

“Animals can seem more pure. Without complication, I mean, animals are selfless. What animals do for us, they do out of instinct.”

Mean Seems Animal Pure Instinct Selfless Complication

Author:Susan Orlean

“A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.”

Seems Fall Wonder Sky Snow Winter Snow Snow Falling Snow Day Fresh Snow

Author:Susan Orlean

“I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines.”

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Author:Susan Orlean

“Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.”

Seems House Car Fixation

Author:Susan Orlean

“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!”

Giving Seems Might Space Calling Bed Spring Garden Empty Sight Give Me Plant Block Editors Writer's Block

Author:Susan Orlean

“I've noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel like you are engaged in an ongoing conversation - as if this one e-mail doesn't represent the beginning and end of the interaction but is just part of a perpetual loop of friendly back-and-forth.”

Ifs Feels Ends Use Seems Like You Conversation Intimate Engaged Friendly Mail Interaction Perpetual Ongoing Closing Back And Forth Loops Beginnings And Ends

Author:Susan Orlean

“It seems that half the point of being in Miami Beach - particularly the northern end of South Beach - is to be observed by people-watchers like me, and the display along Ocean Drive during my visit was, as always, sublime.”

People Ends Seems Half Ocean South Like Me Beach Display Sublime Miami Watchers Miami Beach South Beach

Author:Susan Orlean

“There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger.”

Mind Seems Culture Fingers Track Pops Surface These Days Giants Brushes Pop Culture Comes And Goes Snaps Popular Culture Fuzzy Notoriety

Author:Susan Orlean

“The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility.”

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Book:The Orchid Thief

Source: The Orchid Thief

“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.”

Writing Children Seems Parent Lines Notion Profession Secure Persistence Suggesting Olympian

Author:Susan Orlean

About the Author

Born: October 31, 1955
Known for: Journalist
Quotes: 163

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