Judith Guest
Judith Guest
Judith Guestis an American novelist and screenwriter. She was born in Detroit, Michigan and is the great-niece of Poet Laureate Edgar Guest...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth29 March 1936
CountryUnited States of America
guiding necessary principle reason
To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to posses a guiding principle
morning guiding-principles belief
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
american-novelist national prize sent short sons taught won wrote
I taught more school, had two more sons and then in 1970 I wrote a short story and sent it to a national contest, where I won 60th prize out of 100.
hard people smile stiff
People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
american-novelist relate relation thinking
I'm not terrifically comfortable with even thinking about what I've accomplished in relation to who I am and how I relate to other people.
pain feelings feels
Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.
action life-is ordinary-people
Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.
tired writing long
I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.
blessed thinking luck
I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.
tears fabric social
I've never been one to tear the social fabric.
work two get-back
It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.
success who-i-am
My success is not who I am.
expectations people needs
Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work which is why you need to be persistent.
who-i-am ideas giving
It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's the person I'm going to be. No matter how subtle it is, it's there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain't me.