“The biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this. I did not live in the… — Anna Quindlen Biggest mistake Copy Share Image
I think one of the hardest things about doing a book in the first person is that to a certain extent each… — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
[In the aftermath of death] Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous. — Anna Quindlen Aftermath Copy Share Image
Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word… — Anna Quindlen Behinds Copy Share Image
The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America. — Anna Quindlen America Copy Share Image
“But I’ve finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality delivery system, designed expressly to carry my character from place… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind. — Anna Quindlen Bed Copy Share Image
So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness. — Anna Quindlen Bedrock Copy Share Image
You realize that these accidental decisions you make about changing jobs, about moving into an apartment where you make new friends and… — Anna Quindlen Apartment Copy Share Image
An election marks the end of the affair; it puts paid to the seduction of the many by the few. Pretty words,… — Anna Quindlen Affair Copy Share Image
the more humdrum aspects of life do not make for gripping reading. To render them compelling, a writer must describe the universal… — Anna Quindlen Alas Copy Share Image
“It was a kind of circular thing: to be the kind of person who would have taken Faith in, he had to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think Americans suspect, without even being able to articulate it, that we're at the end of the American century; that we're… — Anna Quindlen Able Copy Share Image
Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be… — Anna Quindlen Being honest 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
“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I… — Anna Quindlen Aspirations Copy Share Image
“The essential London scenes is a row of low identical houses set around a square.” — Anna Quindlen Cities Copy Share Image
Women are the glue that holds our day-to-day world together. — Anna Quindlen Day to day Copy Share Image
I think there are some stories that need to be told by a specific person as opposed to in the third person. — Anna Quindlen Needs 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 Biggest mistake Copy Share Image
When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about… — Anna Quindlen Parenting 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
However, there will be a Republican Party platform that will coalesce around their convention. Unless I miss my guess, it will be… — Anna Quindlen Choices Copy Share Image