I don't really read what people write about me. Someone gives my novel one star; are they a troll? Are they someone… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I never think about issues when I'm working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“The most memorable books from our childhoods are those that make us feel less alone, convince us that our own foibles and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
the more humdrum aspects of life do not make for gripping reading. To render them compelling, a writer must describe the universal… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my son's third grade teacher refers… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think one of the hardest things about doing a book in the first person is that to a certain extent each… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
You realize that especially when you're writing a book like this, looking back on your life, that there's just such a depth… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I can't begin to predict how news will be delivered to readers in, say, 100 years. But I do know one thing… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Writing for UrbanMoms has awarded me a multitude of amazing opportunities. I have traveled to new places; alone and with my family.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share
Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share
Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share
You teach your 16-year-old with your heart in your mouth to be a good driver and none of that makes any difference when some… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share
Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share
“I’ve finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality-delivery system, designed expressly to carry my character from place to place, now and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share
“In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share
“Yet there was always in me, even when I was very small, the sense that I ought to be somewhere else. And wander I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share
Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share
