Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes environment flourish graduate
All sorts of creative communities are withering in New York because it's too hard to live here. It's ridiculous how expensive it is. Susan Choi communitycreativeexpensive Change image and share on social
It's still funny for me to think of myself as someone who writes historical fiction because it seems like a really fusty, musty term, and yet it clearly applies. Susan Choi applyfictionfunny Change image and share on social
If I'm not in the dead heat of working on something, I can end up spending tons and tons of time on the Web, and I hate it. I feel the same shame I did in grad school when I was pretty much addicted to reruns of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'. I wish someone would make the Web just go away. Just remove it from the earth. Susan Choi addictdeadearth share on social
I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because I felt gaps in my literary background. I studied mostly twentieth-century English literature in college, so I thought, 'Maybe I'll go back for my writing.' Susan Minot backbackgroundcentury share on social
I am not saying that the Renaissance in any way was a feminist movement - hardly. But the arts flourished, and in more social settings as opposed to being confined to the church. Kathryn Lasky artchurchconfine Change image and share on social
I want to tell mayors, county chiefs and heads of big companies: don't just chase GDP growth; don't chase the biggest profits at the expense of our children and grandchildren and at the cost of sacrificing our ecological environment. Chen Guangbiao bigchasechief share on social