Anita Diament Quotes - Page 2

I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.

Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.

If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.

The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.

There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.

Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

Mountains are where heaven meets earth.

It was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also kissing your face.

I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

Biblical names are hot again.

Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.

The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.

Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.

There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.

It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.

I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.