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 can't begin to predict how news will be delivered to readers in, say, 100 years. But I do know one thing… — Anna Quindlen Blogs Copy Share Image
I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show… — Anna Quindlen Friendship Copy Share Image
“I mark my years or parenting by the people who stepped in and forced me to abandon my inclination to meddle, micromanage,… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict… — Anna Quindlen America Copy Share Image
“For the young the days go fast and the years go slow; for the old the days go slow and the years… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust,… — Anna Quindlen Around the corner Copy Share Image
“And then sometimes we become one of those people and are amazed, not by our own strength but by that indomitable ability… — Anna Quindlen Every day Copy Share Image
Sometimes we don't see out of our peripheral vision what's coming right around the corner. — Anna Quindlen Around the corner Copy Share Image
The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed, — Anna Quindlen Dog 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 Answers Copy Share Image
There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not… — Anna Quindlen Beauty Copy Share Image
Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never,… — Anna Quindlen Adore 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 First time Copy Share Image
“knew, that for a birthday or a holiday or simply a dinner party offering, they could bring her a snow globe. Except… — Anna Quindlen Dinner party Copy Share Image
My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the… — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
“Just remember that sometimes you drift into things, and then you can't get out of them. Not to decide is to decide.” — Anna Quindlen Life lessons Copy Share Image
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. — Anna Quindlen Becoming yourself Copy Share Image
"You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life… — Anna Quindlen Bank account 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 was the idea of facing a future skimming the surface of life, winging my way in and out of other… — Anna Quindlen Confusion Copy Share Image
