533 Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.

An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times -- always with the same person.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions.