Susanna Moore - I was betting on cockfights in the...

I was betting on cockfights in the Filipino workers' camps when I was 11.

Biography

Author Profession: Writer

Nationality: American

Born: December 9, 1945

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Related Authors

Dr. Seuss, H. L. Mencken, Napoleon Hill, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ray Bradbury, William Arthur Ward, Dale Carnegie, Denis Waitley

Topics

Betting, Camps, Filipino, Workers

Quotes to Explore

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.

Sea Green Service Fish

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.

Plants Way Chance Birds

Women are completely disadvantaged - despite what men will say. It is not a fair fight.

Women Men Fight Will

Writing can't be taught.

Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.

Yourself Way Writing Know

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

Writing Always More Something

'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.

Women Me Children Flowers

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.

Myself Me See Rules

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Past Understanding Task

When I was nine, I was taught to ride a surfboard in Waikiki by the beach boy Rabbit Kekai.

Ride Beach Boy Rabbit

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.

Myself Girl Feet Story

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.

Government Live Year I Was Raised

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.

People Will Trouble Survive

'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.

Family Alone Time Library

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