Mary Higgins Clark Quotes

• A library is a path to the future--find yours there.

  Mary Higgins Clark

  Library, Path

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• If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.

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  Being Happy, Love Life, Want

  Mary Higgins Clark (2011). “ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Happiness, Pieces, Mercury

  Mary Higgins Clark (2008). “Kitchen Privileges”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

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  Book, Mean, Next

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• Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs.

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  Hero, Triumph, Red

  "Remembering the big day: when grad met Dad" by Joshunda Sanders, www.sfgate.com. June 8, 2003.

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• live your life as if you may lose everything.

  Mary Higgins Clark

  Live Your Life, May, Ifs

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• The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule.

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  Inspirational, Glasses, Flames

  Mary Higgins Clark (2008). “Kitchen Privileges”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.

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  Writing, Once Upon A Time, Matter

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• It's funny how, even long after you've accepted the grief of losing someone you love and truly have gotten on with your life, every once in a while something comes up that plays "gotcha," and for a moment or two the scar tissue separates and the wound is raw again.

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  Grief, Play, Long

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• Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.

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  Reality

  Mary Higgins Clark (2000). “Loves Music, Loves To Dance”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• A common question asked of writers is "When did you decide to become a writer?" The answer, of course, is that we didn't decide anything. It was decided for us. I firmly believe that mythical godmothers make appearances at our cradles, and bestow their gifts. The godmother who might have blessed me with a singing voice did not show up; the goddess of dance was nowhere in sight; the chef-to-the-angels was otherwise engaged. Only one made the journey to my cradle, and she whispered, "You will be a storyteller."

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  Believe, Blessed, Angel

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• 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.

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  Suggestions, Pages, Action

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• 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.

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  Book, Writing, Hands

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• 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.

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  Pay, Envelopes, Doing Nothing

  "Famed author Mary Higgins Clark on faith, optimism and how she and her daughter Carol came to collaborate on a TV pilot". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• 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.

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  Hate, Party, Doors

  Mary Higgins Clark (2008). “Moonlight Becomes You”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Trying, Pay, Figures

  "Famed author Mary Higgins Clark on faith, optimism and how she and her daughter Carol came to collaborate on a TV pilot". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• 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?

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  Daughter, Mother, Jealous

  "Famed author Mary Higgins Clark on faith, optimism and how she and her daughter Carol came to collaborate on a TV pilot". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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