Quotes by : Anna Quindlen

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted....

the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by....

I prize my downtime, count on it as a writer, a parent, a person. Sometimes I think of Woody Allen's....

those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people....

In the woods it was not so much that it was quiet as that the few sounds were loud and distinct, not....

there is still a kind of unique loneliness to child rearing for women. We so often do it in isolation.....

I mark my years or parenting by the people who stepped in and forced me to abandon my inclination to....

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler,....

But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our....

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our....