Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.
Anna Quindlen
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
Author
Columnist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anna Marie Quindlen
Good
Never
Inspiring
Wells
Well
Done
Enough
More quotes by Anna Quindlen
A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.
Anna Quindlen
I do a lot of mental work before I ever start writing.
Anna Quindlen
I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility.
Anna Quindlen
The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.
Anna Quindlen
Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids and their elders' cold unconcern toward others. Maybe the homeless are not the only ones who need to spend time in these places to thaw out.
Anna Quindlen
We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.
Anna Quindlen
I think what saved me, as a writer, is that there are really two breaking points in my life. One was when I was 19 and my mother died, and one was when I was 31 and my first child was born. And that sort of gave me a kind of rebirth that I think has been invaluable to me as a novelist, in terms of seeing the world anew.
Anna Quindlen
The difference between government and leadership is that leadership has a soul.
Anna Quindlen
Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement.
Anna Quindlen
All the things we don’t say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble.
Anna Quindlen
When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of the book.
Anna Quindlen
The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.
Anna Quindlen
Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal illness because if you do you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
Anna Quindlen
By the time you kill and mount what you catch, it has lost that very thing that made it worth having. I knew this only as a vague sense of disappointment at age 10 not until later did I recognize it as a metaphor for much of life.
Anna Quindlen
Ask any woman how she makes it through the day, and she may mention her calendar, her to-do lists, her babysitter. But if you push her on how she really makes it through her day, she will mention her girlfriends.
Anna Quindlen
I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
Anna Quindlen
Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.
Anna Quindlen
And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.
Anna Quindlen
Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.
Anna Quindlen
Now the baby boomers, i.e., us, are getting older, and were suddenly discovering that there are great things about getting older. You have time for your friendships and you appreciate them in ways that you didn't before.
Anna Quindlen
