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
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
wealth monotonous
... the monotonous beauty of wealth.
jesus people solitude
Jesus but people got weird when they lived alone.
peace making-peace
Make peace with what is.
crazy pressure mental-illness
Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.
heart rooms
Don't put anyone out of your heart, there's room for all.
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.
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!
who-i-am pressure feels
With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.
couple stories anthology
I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it.
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.
moving loss order
And do not be paralyzed. It is better to move than to be unable to move, because you fear loss so much: loss of order, loss of security, loss of predictability.
space brain opinion
Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.
reality people twenties
And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.