Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

- Judith Guest

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

- Judith Guest

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

- Judith Guest

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 be…

- Judith Guest

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

- Judith Guest

Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.

- Judith Guest

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 pred…

- Judith Guest

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

- Judith Guest

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 a…

- Judith Guest