Beach Quote by Anna Quindlen

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

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

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

Loss as muse. Loss as character. Loss as life.

— Anna Quindlen

knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.

— Anna Quindlen

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

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

“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

A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.

— Anna Quindlen

“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

“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

I can't think of a single downside to motherhood now.

— Anna Quindlen