Judith Guest
People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.Collection: Smile
I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.
I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.
It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.
My success is not who I am.
I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am.
Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.
I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!
With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.
It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's the person I'm going to be. No matter how subtle it is, it's there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain't me.
Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.
I've never been one to tear the social fabric.
I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.
Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.
Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.Collection: Depression
Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.Collection: Depression
And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.Collection: Reality
Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.Collection: Writing
Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.Collection: Crazy
You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.Collection: Family
Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.Collection: Action
And do not be paralyzed. It is better to move than to be unable to move, because you fear loss so much: loss of order, loss of security, loss of predictability.Collection: Moving
Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.Collection: Reality
Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.Collection: Writing
Make peace with what is.Collection: Peace
Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.Collection: Running
. . . crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.Collection: Crazy
To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kindCollection: Morning
Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.Collection: Pain
Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.Collection: Thinking
Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work which is why you need to be persistent.Collection: People
The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.Collection: Despair
Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?Collection: Love
I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it.Collection: Couple
People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.Collection: Life
...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.Collection: Emotional
... the monotonous beauty of wealth.Collection: Wealth
The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.Collection: Sleep
Don't put anyone out of your heart, there's room for all.Collection: Heart
Jesus but people got weird when they lived alone.Collection: Jesus
For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night's rest.Collection: Good Night
Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced. No. Wrong. You don't lose what you never had.Collection: Identity