533 Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

One day you are an apprentice, and everybody’s pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It’s the sin of my middle age, too.

There’s no way to repay a mother’s love, or lack of it.

Women are never landlocked: they’re always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.

There are a handful of people whom money won’t spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn’t either.

Nobody knows the trouble we’ve seen-but we keep trying to tell them.

Everybody can write; writers can’t do anything else.

There’s something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.