Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. — Anna Quindlen Books for kids Copy Share Image
She say guilt is a useless emotion." "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals. — Anna Quindlen Animal Copy Share Image
And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that. — Anna Quindlen Scary Copy Share Image
Obama doesn't seem like a burger and a beer kind of guy. I have to say, I don't find that problematic at… — Anna Quindlen Beer Copy Share Image
It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead… — Anna Quindlen Clock ticking Copy Share Image
I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society. — Anna Quindlen Community Copy Share Image
A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world. — Anna Quindlen Always working 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 Books Copy Share Image
I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I… — Anna Quindlen Best things Copy Share Image
But while ignorance can make you insensitive, familiarity can also numb. Entering the second half-century of an information age, our cumulative knowledge… — Anna Quindlen Age Copy Share Image
If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
an the president bring out the voters who were so enthusiastic about him in 2008 and seem a little disenchanted now? Can… — Anna Quindlen Disenchanted Copy Share Image
I only really understand myself, what I'm really thinking and feelings, when I've talked it over with my circle of female friends.… — Anna Quindlen Circles Copy Share Image
My sister is a public school teacher. She makes far far less money than I do, and gets almost no public attention… — Anna Quindlen Attention Copy Share Image
Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star bursts in spring; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky… — Anna Quindlen Astronomy Copy Share Image
You just can't tell or calibrate motive or intelligence or sense. So I don't read anything unless someone tells me that it's… — Anna Quindlen Illuminating 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 Appreciate Copy Share Image
And yet we constantly reclaim some part of that primal spontaneity through the youngest among us, not only through their sorrow and… — Anna Quindlen Body Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of men: men who want a wife who is predictable, and men who want a wife who is… — Anna Quindlen Husbands-and-wives Copy Share Image
The best thing about Sassy Seats is that grandmothers cannot figure out how they work and are in constant fear of the… — Anna Quindlen Aspect Copy Share Image
There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which have… — Anna Quindlen Chasms Copy Share Image
The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of… — Anna Quindlen American writer 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 Accused Copy Share Image
“Who says great literatue has to be written by men? Who says great literature has to be about scary, creepy stuff like… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
“It had turned out that climbing a tree was more difficult than it looked. It was harder than warrior pose in yoga,… — Anna Quindlen Trees Copy Share Image
