I always have music on unless I'm reading aloud, which I always do before I hand anything in. It's the only way… — Anna Quindlen Clauses Copy Share Image
“Then when she really thought about it she realized she’d been becoming different people for as long as she could remember but… — Anna Quindlen Different people Copy Share Image
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. — Anna Quindlen Book Copy Share Image
It is this that, finally, I will try to teach my sons about sex, after I've explained fertile periods and birth control… — Anna Quindlen Believe Copy Share Image
I don't understand how people learn to live in the world if they haven't had siblings. Everything I learned about negotiation, territoriality,… — Anna Quindlen And love 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
“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
“I think that the people I know now believe I went home to take care of my mother because I loved her.… — Anna Quindlen Parenting Copy Share Image
“Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of… — Anna Quindlen Books 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 ways and ways of dying, and some of them leave you walking around.” — Anna Quindlen Death Copy Share Image
Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones. — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an… — Anna Quindlen Ability Copy Share Image
Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house. — Anna Quindlen Bigger Copy Share Image
Fifty years ago, teachers said their top discipline problems were talking, chewing gum, making noise, and running in the halls. The current… — Anna Quindlen Chewing 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
The truth is that when you're writing a novel you're really living in it; you're living in the house, and you're living… — Anna Quindlen Books 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
“A loose end - that's what we woman call it, when we are overwhelmed by the care of small children, the weight… — Anna Quindlen Children Copy Share Image
Wow, so much of the way I've transacted my life... so much of the results that I'm happy about are because of… — Anna Quindlen Daddy Copy Share Image
What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is… — Anna Quindlen Ability Copy Share Image
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in… — Anna Quindlen Success Copy Share Image
If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life… — Anna Quindlen Alarm clock Copy Share Image
