I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them.
Anna QuindlenThat's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are.
Anna QuindlenMy sister is a public school teacher. She makes far far less money than I do, and gets almost no public attention for her work. Yet I believe what she does is infinitely more important and more difficult than what I do.
Anna Quindlen