Quotes from Susanna Moore

I don't believe in destiny, although I am sometimes tempted by the freedom implied by inevitability.

He was looking at me in a way that he never had before. Impatient. A little bored. As if I were not so smart after all.

Things have been happening so quickly that I haven't been able to think them through. Which always makes me a little nervous. Not that anything like this has ever happened to me before.

Maybe you got a date in the city. You're going to get laid. A stranger, someone new, 'cause you wouldn't take the trouble for someone you already fucked.

The one thing she didn't teach me because I was always in a rush was to stick around. I was always getting laid on the run.

I do possess a certain rigidity, a certain prudishness. I hate it in myself.

But there he was last night, standing on the stoop, yelling up at my window to let him inside. I let him in.

Nowhere could I find peace.

The trees have a look of finding themselves in the wrong place, perhaps because they remember the river moving muddily behind the apple trees.

I was thinking about that, my heart suddenly full of despair.

I used to think, what other job in the world is as good as being a detective?

It is possible to say that all of my books concern themselves with the notion of what it means to be female - whether it is in New York City in 2000 or Calcutta in 1836. In that way, my books really are the same.

While I was writing 'The Big Girls,' I had to take a big breath each morning and calm myself sufficiently to once again enter that world. But friends tell me that it is the only thing that really interests me. They say that I like to be upset.

'Calcutta is a pot of honey' means that in the first half of the nineteenth century, before the society became truly Victorian in feeling and tone, Bengal was a place to make money. The governor-generals returned to England rich men. It was a bountiful, lush, prosperous, easy place to make a fortune - in coal, in jute, and particularly cloth.

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.