“I realized that this entire time…my hope to tell a
long-lasting story, to create something that endured,
to be alive somehow as long as someone would read
my books, was what drove me on, story after story;
it was my lifeline, my passion, my way to understand who I was.”
Susan Orlean
Author of
The Orchid Thief and The Library Book
First posted: February 14, 2020
