Quotes by Judith Guest

About Judith Guest:

Judith Guest is an American novelist and screenwriter. She was born in Detroit, Michigan and is the great-niece of Poet Laureate Edgar Guest (1881–1959).
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People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Judith Guest

. . . 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.

Judith Guest

And what about tomorrow then? And all the tomorrows to come? Why can't we talk about it? Why can't we ever talk about it?

Judith Guest

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.

Judith Guest

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

Judith Guest

People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety.

Judith Guest

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.

Judith Guest

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

Judith Guest

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.

Judith Guest

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.

Judith Guest

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!

Judith Guest

With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.

Judith Guest

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.

Judith Guest

Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

Judith Guest

I've never been one to tear the social fabric.

Judith Guest

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.

Judith Guest

I keep telling you that feeling is not selective. You can't feel pain, you aren't gonna feel anything else either.

Judith Guest

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

Judith Guest

...it is love, imperfect and unordered, that keeps them apart, even as it holds them somehow together...

Judith Guest

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

Judith Guest

Author Bio

  • NameJudith Guest
  • DescriptionNovelist, screenwriter
  • BornMarch 29, 1936
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist; Writer