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
Judith Guest quotes about
hard people smile stiff
People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
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.
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.
allowed american-novelist kids otherwise
I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am.
guiding necessary principle reason
To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to posses a guiding principle
depression simple giving
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.
tired writing long
I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.
identity sense-of-humor lost
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.
blessed thinking luck
I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.
who-i-am mad remember
I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!
family thinking live-your-life
You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.
successful people tragedy
Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.
despair skins together
The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.
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.