... It was the idea of facing a future skimming the surface of life, winging my way in and out of other people's crises, confusions, and passages, engaging them enough to get the story, but never enough to be indelibly touched by what I had seen or heard.
Anna Quindlenhigh fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later.
Anna QuindlenI think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write, and there are very few of them.
Anna QuindlenWhen I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts....But if success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your soul, it is not success at all.
Anna Quindlen