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
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.
sleep editors two
The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.
growing-up political growing
Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.
life depression people
People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.
break-up soul-and-body two
Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?
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.
good-night mean insomnia
For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night's rest.
writing people
Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.
crazy doors views
. . . crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.
despair skins together
The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.
emotional weight way
...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.
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.