73 Quotes by Judith Guest

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    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.

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    Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

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    The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.

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    ...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.

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    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.

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    To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind

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