73 Quotes by Judith Guest

Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

People that keep stiff upper lips find that it’s hard to smile.

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

Haven’t lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced. No. Wrong. You don’t lose what you never had.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it’s what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

Because it has always been easier to believe himself capable of evil than to accept evil in others.

Happy!” She looks at him. “Oh, Ward! You give us all the definition, will you? But first you’d better check on those kids. Every day, to make sure they’re good and safe, that.