I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are… — Anna Quindlen Book 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 Ambitious 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… — Anna Quindlen Change Copy Share Image
knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us. — Anna Quindlen Death 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… — Anna Quindlen Corners 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… — Anna Quindlen Book 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,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement. — Anna Quindlen Cement 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… — Anna Quindlen England 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… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours… — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been… — Anna Quindlen Autobiography 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
Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where… — Anna Quindlen Children 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 Curse Copy Share Image
[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their… — Anna Quindlen Battlefields Copy Share Image
All the things we don’t say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble. — Anna Quindlen Language Copy Share Image
Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous,… — Anna Quindlen Advice Copy Share Image
There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more… — Anna Quindlen Forks Copy Share Image
“Nothing important, or meaningful, or beautiful, or interesting, or great ever came out of imitations. The thing that is really hard and… — Anna Quindlen Becoming yourself Copy Share Image
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