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
Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I know that it's very dispiriting for people in their twenties, who expected to graduate from college, get their own apartments, get… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The problem with freedom is that you just can't go back. Once people see what it means to be free people, you… — 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
The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I do think that people who are now in their sixties and their seventies are living a different kind of life than… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I'm just remembering myself at 22 or 23. I was all engine and no steering. (Laughter) I had the wheels but I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
what we call things matters. ... The words we use, and how we perceive those words, reflect how we value, or devalue,… — Anna Quindlen 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
So I do think sometimes the political mechanism is completely disconnected from the people. However, what I will say is that history… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I don't understand how people learn to live in the world if they haven't had siblings. Everything I learned about negotiation, territoriality,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think at every moment in the last probably 100 years, when the institutional church had the opportunity to do the right… — 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
Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that… — 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
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
