Anna Quindlen
Journalist
1953-07-08
Anna Quindlen is an American columnist, novelist, and nonfiction writer. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992 for her work in journalism and later became widely read for novels and essays on family, social life, and public issues. Her writing spans newspapers, magazines, and bestselling books.
Books by Anna Quindlen
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Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
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One true thing
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Quotes by Anna Quindlen
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But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.
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Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.
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A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.
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The ultimate act of bravery does not take place on a battlefield. It takes place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations and yes, your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world.
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We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.
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Speech is the voice of the heart.
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It would take a helluva man to replace no man at all.
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the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.
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While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where real life is, who think themselves superior in their separateness.
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Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.
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I read and reread and recommended and rarely rejected, became one of those readers who will read trashy stories as long as they're not too terrible--well, even perhaps the truly terrible ones--and will reread something she's already read, even if it's something like a detective novel, when you'd suspect that knowing who had really killed the countess would materially detract from the experience. (It doesn't, and besides, I often can't remember who the murderer was in the first place.)
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But he told me that most of the time he stayed on the boardwalk, facing the water, just the way we were sitting now even when it got cold and he had to wear his newspapers after he read them.And I asked him why. Why didn't he go to one of the shelters? Why didn't he check himself into the hospital for detox? And he just stared out at the ocean and said, Look at the view, young lady. Look at the view.
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So much of friendship is about being in the right place at the right time.
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It turned out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are the plane, the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
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Crusoe and Friday. Ishmael and Ahab. Daisy and Gatsby. Pip and Estella. Me. Me. Me. I am not alone. I am surrounded by words that tell me who I am, why I feel what I feel. Or maybe they just help me while away the hours as the rain pounds down on the porch roof, taking me away from the gloom and on to somewhere sunny, somewhere else.
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In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.
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those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers...
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How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find ourselves transcending customs, strictures, time, mores, to arrive at a place that educates, amuses, and enthralls us? It is a miracle. We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.
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In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
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Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
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