I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
You can get rid of the column. It's a little like staying at a hotel; you get used to the shape of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
What usually happens is that when I'm nearing the end of one novel a vague idea about what I want to do… — 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
Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go,… — 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 Copy Share Image
I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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'm boggled by the idea of being an only child. I know nothing at all (I'm happy to say) about having had… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I don't do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I've had… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before. — 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 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
London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences;… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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