I think when people keep saying to you, "You're good at this," you just keep doing it. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I know a lot and have written a lot and have thought a lot about motherhood. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of… — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy. — Anna Quindlen Bible Copy Share Image
“easing up on seventy, an age when a man might be forgiven follicular failure.” — Anna Quindlen Failure Copy Share Image
Choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work. — Anna Quindlen Baby Copy Share Image
“I lived within the cover of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life.” — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better… — Anna Quindlen Better place Copy Share Image
“Peter was easing up on seventy, an age when a man might be forgiven follicular failure. But Rebecca forgave him nothing. She… — Anna Quindlen Failure Copy Share Image
If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the… — Anna Quindlen Catholic Copy Share Image
Obama doesn't seem like a burger and a beer kind of guy. I have to say, I don't find that problematic at… — Anna Quindlen Beer Copy Share Image
I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be… — Anna Quindlen Being honest Copy Share Image
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who… — Anna Quindlen Beach Copy Share Image
“Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
Sure smokers have made personal choices. And they pay for those choices every day, whether sitting through an airline flight dyingfor a… — Anna Quindlen Addiction Copy Share Image
London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences;… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
“It's odd when I think of the arc of my life, from child to young woman to aging adult. First I was… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's what the Taliban does in Afghanistan, it's what gets done in the Middle East, and it's clearly something that certain mainly… — Anna Quindlen Afghanistan Copy Share Image
The gender gap looks at this point like it's going to favor the president, particularly among white suburban women. I certainly think… — Anna Quindlen Election Copy Share Image
The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over… — Anna Quindlen Apples Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of men: men who want a wife who is predictable, and men who want a wife who is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“there is still a kind of unique loneliness to child rearing for women. We so often do it in isolation. Add to… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
One of the things that got me on this topic for this book was that when I was researching the column I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Jason Oliver C. Smith, a big dumb guy who was tan, died March 30 of lung cancer and old age. He was… — Anna Quindlen Adults Copy Share Image
“The lightning bugs are back. They fly low to the ground as the lawn dissolves from green to black in the dusk.… — Anna Quindlen Bugs Copy Share Image
“It's funny, isn't it, what will make you break? Your lover moves to London and falls in love with a news reader… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I… — Anna Quindlen Aspirations Copy Share Image
“That was the old Ellen Gulden, the girl who would walk over her mother in golf shoes, who scared students away from… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
![“Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives." [ Turning the Page: The future of reading is backlit and bright , Newsweek Magazine, March 25, 2010]” quote by Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/926/anna-quindlen-467_books_reading-is-not-simply-an-intellectual-pu_953665.png)
![“London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.” quote by Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bf8/anna-quindlen-467_books_london-opens-to-you-like-a-novel-itself_3073362.png)
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