“Everything in all the books I once pored over is finished for me now. Penelope Leach. T. Berry Brazelton. Dr. Spock. The… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“How many times had she heard women in New York - maybe women everywhere, for all she knew - speak lyrically of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
People ask me all the time if I'm from a family of writers. The literal short answer is no, but my father… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I'm fine," she said. But her smile was bleak, without light or warmth. And for the first time I thought of what… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
... It was the idea of facing a future skimming the surface of life, winging my way in and out of other… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“The biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this. I did not live in the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make. … I did not live in… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Now the baby boomers, i.e., us, are getting older, and were suddenly discovering that there are great things about getting older. You… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The closest thing to an outline is, because my memory is so bad now, if something occurs to me that I think… — 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
“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
“My friendships have a certain symmetry at the moment: Alice is always asking me what she should do, and Nancy is always… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“it is the only time I can rest without sleeping, think without deciding, speak and hear my own voice. It is the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I had that feeling you have when you're watching a sad movie, sobbing at the heartbreak you are feeling at the same… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
By the time you kill and mount what you catch, it has lost that very thing that made it worth having. I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to imagine yourself in the future. It’s why people do so many dumb things, because they’re mired in the moment.… — 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 was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children, an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think there was a long period of time when we got real invested in a youth culture, and not coincidentally it… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Maybe that was true of marriage everywhere. Between times, in their own living rooms, the men seemed to be resting for the… — 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
Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful… — 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
