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Susan Isaacs

  • This was a very racy remark for Gladys, whose idea of wild sex was Fred Astaire loosening his tie.

  • Her eyes were like two thumbtacks, trying to pin me to the wall.

  • ... the only people who are truly happy are the people we do not know very well ...

  • Propaganda rarely makes good art.

  • Keep in mind that the person to write for is yourself. Tell the story that you most desperately want to read.

    • Susan Isaacs,
    • "A Conversation with Susan Isaacs," in The Writer's Handbook ()

Susan Isaacs, U.S. writer, screenwriter

(1943)