Judith Guest

“A little advice about feelings kiddo; don't expect it always to tickle." Dr, Berger”

— Judith Guest

“And what about tomorrow then? And all the tomorrows to come? Why can't we talk about it? Why can't we ever talk…

— Judith Guest

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as…

— Judith Guest

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

— Judith Guest

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

— Judith Guest

Make peace with what is.

— Judith Guest

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

— Judith Guest

Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain…

— Judith Guest

Don't put anyone out of your heart, there's room for all.

— Judith Guest

“People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety.”

— Judith Guest

Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times…

— Judith Guest

I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me…

— Judith Guest

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other…

— Judith Guest

The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.

— Judith Guest

“...it is love, imperfect and unordered, that keeps them apart, even as it holds them somehow together...”

— Judith Guest

Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.

— Judith Guest

. . . crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door,…

— Judith Guest

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

— Judith Guest

...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which…

— Judith Guest

I've never been one to tear the social fabric.

— Judith Guest

“People have a right to be the way they are.”

— Judith Guest

People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

— Judith Guest

Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.

— Judith Guest

It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.

— Judith Guest

It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's…

— Judith Guest