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Judith Viorst
Judith Viorst
American Author
Born: Feb 2, 1932
About Love Me Mother People You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there. Judith Viorst
Music Laughter Wine Our Pleasure Ring Also Because Making Sound Friends Louder Close Close Friends Contribute Personal Taste Personal Growth Richer Sweeter Growth
Everyone has bad days, and when you're having a bad day, you think, 'Here I am being singled out by a hostile, malicious universe that is picking exclusively on me.' And then you read a book about bad days and realize they happen to everyone, not just tormented, persecuted you. Judith Viorst
Day Me You Book Bad Day Think Universe Everyone Out Tormented Bad Bad Days About Having Hostile Picking Days Read Am Singled Malicious Persecuted Just Being Happen Realize Then Here
We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong. Judith Viorst
Hope Sometimes Try Will Our Somehow Give Imperfect Wrong Always Up Children Hard Connection Right
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? Judith Viorst
You Childish Cost Superstition Foolish Knock Primitive Does How How Much Irrational Wood Much
Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it. Judith Viorst
Love You Love Is Lust Other No Desire Makes Want Wanting Even Each Keeps Desire
All along, I've been writing about our fears, our longings, our fantasies, our ambivalences. When I decided to study psychoanalysis, I did it because I wanted to understand the psychodynamics of it all. Though far from perfect, psychoanalysis offered me a huge, wonderful window on all that. Judith Viorst
Me Writing Wonderful Fears Our Though Window About Perfect Study Along Because Understand Been Huge Offered Did Wanted Psychoanalysis Decided Fantasies Far
If I could pick one reason why I want to be a writer, it would be connection. In all kinds of ways, I like to be individual and distinct; but when I write, I want to be writing about things that connect me to the people for whom I write. Judith Viorst
Me People Writing Distinct Ways Would Would-Be Kinds About Could Individual Write Writer Pick Like Want If I Could Reason Connect Connection Whom Why Things
One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again. Judith Viorst
Love You Together Marriage Fall Out He Advantage Until Him Falls Again Keeps
Don't let anything sneak past you. Don't say, 'Well, oh, I'll take a picture and put it in my photograph album.' I notice it now. I love it now. And I am grateful for it now. Judith Viorst
Love You Grateful Picture Past Say Photograph Take Put Well Am Sneak Oh Anything Notice Now Album
My mother was born in June and later, feeling a vacancy, chose her birth month for her middle name. Marry to marry, had kids because that's what was done. Liked crossword puzzles, liked lilac trees, liked baking in the sun, and liked Bing Crosby. Judith Viorst
Mother Feeling Trees Birth Later Month Sun Kids Marry Born Crosby Crossword Had Puzzles Name Liked Baking Because June Done Middle Chose Bing Bing Crosby Her Vacancy
My mother would have been so crazy about my grandchildren. She was a fabulous grandmother, and she would have been absolutely crazed as a great-grandmother. I miss that part of her. Judith Viorst
Crazy Mother Would Fabulous About Absolutely Part Miss She Been Grandchildren Grandmother Her
My favorite was 'The Secret Garden'. I loved it, and I think it's had a big influence on all of my characters. 'The Secret Garden' is about transgressions and imperfect people. Judith Viorst
Garden People Big Think Secret Favorite Characters About Imperfect Had Big Influence Influence Loved Transgression
My Girl Scout leader. She told me if I listened more and talked less, I could grow up to be a good writer. I thought that was interesting advice at age 12. Judith Viorst
Good Me Age Thought Girl Leader Advice More Could Writer Good Writer She Talked Up Scout Listened Interesting Less Grow Grow Up
Nobody who knows me and loves me dearly would ever call me adaptable or flexible. I'm not. Judith Viorst
Me Would Nobody Call Knows Dearly Loves Flexible Who Ever Adaptable
You could never plan your life in a million years. Judith Viorst
Life You Could Never Years Plan Your Million Million Years
Starting after 60, I thought, 'I'm not going to be able to write a book of poems on the 70s. It's going to be all moans and groans and complaints, and what is there to laugh about?' But I found plenty to laugh about. Judith Viorst
Book Thought Complaints Plenty Laugh Able About Poems Write Going After Groans Found Starting
I actually sat down and started three Alexanders at the same time. Two of them went in the trash and got stomped on because I hated the idea so much. And the one I came up with, I got very excited by. And that's 'Alexander, Who's Trying His Best to Be the Best Boy Ever'. Judith Viorst
Time Best Three Down Alexander Hated Excited Idea Because Boy Got Came His Up Very Trying Same Same Time Them Much Sat Trash Ever Actually Started Two
I not only wanted to write when I was 7 and 8, but I sent stuff out when I was 7 and 8. I sent it out... and I couldn't believe that they would turn down my poems about faithful dogs. Judith Viorst
Faithful Down Believe Out Would About Poems Only Write Stuff Dogs Wanted Sent Turn
My first published writings were trying to take scientific concepts and make them clear for a general audience. Judith Viorst
First General Take Writings Clear Concepts Make Scientific Audience Were Trying Them Published
I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only knew her in one way: As the lady who thought they were smarter than Albert Einstein. As the lady who thought they wrote better than William Shakespeare. As the lady who thought every picture they drew was a Rembrandt. Judith Viorst
Love Anger Better Mother Thought Picture Every Way William One-Way Drew Shakespeare Only Daughters Rembrandt Had Knew Smarter Suppose Most Wrote Were Than Children Lady Einstein Who Lived Her Albert Albert Einstein

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