Each year, I await with dread the federal government's catalog of endangered and threatened species in the Hawaiian Islands, where I was raised and where I live. Susanna Moore More Quotes by Susanna Moore More Quotes From Susanna Moore I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can't prove a memory any more than I can prove a dream. Susanna Moore dream memories thinking The belief that love is a finite essence that will eventually run out holds a certain logic for me even now, even if I am supposed to know better. Susanna Moore essence running love-is New York is like a big dinner party. You have to be very careful about what you say and do because you never know whose feet are touching under the table. Susanna Moore party new-york feet On its 2015 list, the Fish and Wildlife Service included the 'ea, or hawksbill turtle, as well as the green turtle, Ridley sea turtle, leatherback turtle and loggerhead turtle. Four mammals are considered endangered: the Hawaiian hoary bat; the kohola, or humpback whale; the sperm whale; and the endemic Hawaiian monk seal. Susanna Moore fish service green sea I was betting on cockfights in the Filipino workers' camps when I was 11. Susanna Moore filipino betting camps workers The chance of any species reaching and then surviving on an island as distant as one of the Hawaiian chain is infinitesimal, but despite the extraordinary odds, plants and seeds found their way ashore, carried by the tide or blown by trade winds, inside birds or in their feathers, in the branches of trees and in the jetsam of sunken ships. Susanna Moore plants birds chance way Women are completely disadvantaged - despite what men will say. It is not a fair fight. Susanna Moore will fight women men Writing can't be taught. Susanna Moore taught writing Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin. Susanna Moore yourself know writing way The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing. Susanna Moore more something always writing 'In the Cut' was not what readers expected of me. Before it was published, I was seen as a women's writer, which meant that I wrote movingly about flowers and children. Susanna Moore flowers me women children Transgressive to me means breaking the rules and sinning. I don't see myself as breaking the rules and sinning. I'm really interested in what it means to be female. Susanna Moore rules see myself me The task of understanding the past is neverending. Susanna Moore task understanding past When I was nine, I was taught to ride a surfboard in Waikiki by the beach boy Rabbit Kekai. Susanna Moore rabbit boy ride beach As a girl, I sat awestruck at the feet of Harriet Ne, author of 'Tales of Molokai'. It was she who used to say, 'I myself have seen it,' after telling a particularly hair-raising ghost story - a phrase that I borrowed for one of my titles. Susanna Moore story myself girl feet People will be able to survive, of course, without honeycreepers and monk seals. But if the wolf spider is in trouble, we are in trouble, too. Susanna Moore survive will trouble people 'Forever Amber,' written by Kathleen Winsor in 1944, was banned in Boston at the time of its publication as obscene and offensive. This alone would have been enough to excite my interest, but in 1956, it was sitting inoffensively on the shelves of the small country library on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii, where my family spent its summers. Susanna Moore alone library family time I lived in Calcutta for five months in 1999. While I was there, I read many journals, diaries, collections of letters and histories. Susanna Moore lived read five letters '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. Susanna Moore rich society money men 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. Susanna Moore say city new way
