Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. — Anna Quindlen Books for kids Copy Share Image
So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness. — Anna Quindlen Bedrock Copy Share Image
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. — Anna Quindlen Book 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
If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be cheap, too. — Anna Quindlen Birth Copy Share Image
I do think there's some aspect of being a novelist that is a little crazy making. — Anna Quindlen Aspect Copy Share Image
“There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read.” — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory. — Anna Quindlen Illusory 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
“It turned out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
“All of reading is really only finding ways to name ourselves, and, perhaps, to name the others around us so that they… — Anna Quindlen Reading Copy Share Image
Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people… — Anna Quindlen Exposing 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
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
I went to a women's college. ... it was a little like learning to swim while holding on to the side of… — Anna Quindlen Arms Copy Share Image
“it seem like he was training for the Olympics and I was the gold medal. No one had ever acted like I… — Anna Quindlen Gold medal 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 beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle… — Anna Quindlen Beginning Copy Share Image
“It is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
When you look at the women that have made a real difference in the world throughout history, what they’ve done has almost… — Anna Quindlen Defined 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
It makes me angry to think that . . . female sanitation workers will spend their days doing a job most of… — Anna Quindlen Angry Copy Share Image
If you raise an intelligent girl she will become a feminist because of the facts of her own life. Raising feminist boys… — Anna Quindlen Boys Copy Share Image
Your hair isn't quite right and maybe you're a size bigger than you should be and on and on and on. I… — Anna Quindlen Bigger Copy Share Image
I think at every moment in the last probably 100 years, when the institutional church had the opportunity to do the right… — Anna Quindlen Church Copy Share Image
“valley? That should be interesting for you.” “I haven’t decided what I’m doing yet.” “I’d be happy to help,” Mr. Bally said.… — Anna Quindlen Gaze Copy Share Image
“Someday, sometime, you will be sitting somewhere. A berm overlooking a pond in Vermont. The lip of the Grand Canyon at sunset.… — Anna Quindlen Black hole Copy Share Image
When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around. — Anna Quindlen Around Copy Share Image
high fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later. — Anna Quindlen Fashion Copy Share Image
“He’d had a dog once, in that way he’d had everything in his childhood, ordinary but a lot less lasting.” — Anna Quindlen Childhood Copy Share Image
“You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits.” — Anna Quindlen Pith Copy Share Image
Barack Obama presents as kind of a cool character, and I think that that's his natural personality. — Anna Quindlen Barack Copy Share Image
All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading. — Anna Quindlen Austen Copy Share Image
If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the… — Anna Quindlen Elude Copy Share Image
You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership. — Anna Quindlen Certain 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
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
“The curse of having young people about the house was that they were always so redolent of possibility.” — Anna Quindlen Possibility Copy Share Image
I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehersal, and that today is… — Anna Quindlen Destination Copy Share Image
