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
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.
blessed thinking luck
I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.
friendship thinking my-best-friend
Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.
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.
thinking giving too-much
Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.
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.
guiding necessary principle reason
To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to posses a guiding principle
hard people smile stiff
People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
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.
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.