Mary Higgins Clark Quotes
The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.
The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule.
Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.
Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.
Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs.
The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.
Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.
As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation.
I am a natural optimist but there were times when (it seemed like) I was doing nothing but adding up on the back of envelope what I had to pay this month.
I certainly understand very much what it's (like when) an expense comes up and you're trying to figure out how to pay for it.
When a scientist's son or daughter becomes a scientist they'll say "Wonderful! Wonderful!" So, why, in the name of God, would a mother be jealous to see her daughter become a successful writer?
In her room death would come as a friend, a friend with cool gentle hands . . .