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
hard people smile stiff
People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
running people missing
Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.
reality people may
Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.
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.
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.
life depression people
People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.
writing people
Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.
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.
jesus people solitude
Jesus but people got weird when they lived alone.
reality people twenties
And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.
guiding necessary principle reason
To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to posses a guiding principle
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.
chance cleared discovered house kept led office perfection promptly rules terrifying
He had led off being a perfectionist when he discovered that not promptly kept appointments, not a house circumspectly clean. . . not anything cleared you through the terrifying office of chance; that it is chance and not perfection that rules the world.
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.