Anne Perry Professions : Author Born : October 28, 1938 Browse All Authors Top 27 quotes by Anne Perry To take for granted one's blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack of care. One should never tire of nourishing and treasuring all that is lovely. Anne Perry soul blessing love The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything. Anne Perry laughing men I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write. Anne Perry writing people thinking Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space, tore away the willingness to judge. Anne Perry pain space moving People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin. Anne Perry sin lying people Too many women waste their lives grieving because they do not have something other people tell them they should want. Whether you are happy or not depends to some degree upon outsward circumstances, but mostly it depends how you choose to look at thing syourself, whether you measure what you have or what you have not. Anne Perry degrees grieving people You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why. Anne Perry doe writing people What do I believe? It has been a long journey of discovery. There have been hesitations and errors along the way, and no doubt will be more, because I am still learning, both about myself and about life. Anne Perry errors journey believe Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome. Anne Perry anchors skills people A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams. Anne Perry library mind dream We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue. Anne Perry hurt trying way Be aware that you can truly help people only by aiding them to become what they are, not what you are. I have heard you say 'If I were you, I would do this, or that.' 'I' am never 'you'--and my solutions may not be yours. Anne Perry may helping people The mountains are so beautiful they make me ache inside because the moment I look away I know I shall need to see them again. And I cannot spend the rest of my life standing on the spot starting at shifting sunlight and mist and shadows across the sea. Anne Perry shadow sea beautiful We believe world peace is inevitable. Anne Perry inevitable believe world The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse. Anne Perry loss war believe I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences? Anne Perry differences people past I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous. Anne Perry wwi challenges stories some kinds of beauty did not heal, but hollowed the pain even deeper. Anne Perry pain kind beauty ... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death. Anne Perry optimism brain heart I believe in an individual soul which travels through eternity. This life is far from all there is--in fact, it is a minute part, simply an antechamber, a deciding place where we choose the light from the dark, where we come to know what we truly value. Anne Perry light dark believe Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson author All Authors
