Novel Quotes by Linda Barnes

Marcia was incredibly organized, obsessively neat ... I mean she folded her underwear like origami.

— Linda Barnes

Guilt is the major motivating force in my life.

— Linda Barnes

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.

— Linda Barnes

Record company execs eat their young, I swear to God.

— Linda Barnes

Probably the only thing my mom and dad agreed on was the vital importance of guilt.

— Linda Barnes

Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For…

— Linda Barnes

If life can end in one minute - so damn quickly with no damn warning - you better do what you want to do…

— Linda Barnes

I have no-fail chemistry. A guy turns me on, he's the wrong one for me.

— Linda Barnes

Plenty of guys are good at sex, but conversation, now there's an art.

— Linda Barnes

I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel.

— Linda Barnes