Judith Guest Quotes
Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.
And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.
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.
Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.
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.
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?
Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.
Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.
Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.
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.
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!
I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it.
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.
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.
For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night's rest.
. . . 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.
You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.
The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.
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.
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.
...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.
Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.
The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.
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
Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.
To have a reason to get up in the morning it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. A belief of some kind. A bumper sticker if you will.
...it is love, imperfect and unordered, that keeps them apart, even as it holds them somehow together...
I keep telling you that feeling is not selective. You can't feel pain, you aren't gonna feel anything else either.
People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety.