Nancy Pickard Quotes

• History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

  Nancy Pickard

  Lying, History, Events

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• Where there are problems, there are angels hovering about just waiting for us to ask them to help us transform our suffering into blessings. I'm not being religious, I'm telling you the truth as I have experienced it. ... And I'm not being trendy either. I was talking to angels long before they got fashionable. ... So maybe you don't believe in angels, that's all right, they don't care. They're not like Tinkerbell, you know, they don't depend on your faith to exist. A lot of people didn't believe the earth was round either, but that didn't make it any flatter.

  Nancy Pickard

  Religious, Believe, Angel

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• If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.

  Nancy Pickard

  Dream, Writing, Commitment

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• It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.

  Nancy Pickard

  Fate, Destiny, Luck

  Nancy Pickard (1989). “Marriage Is Murder”, Pocket

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• It was at our library that I found Nancy Drew and fell in love with the genre. I've been grateful ever since for those tolerant, book-loving librarians who allowed a child like me to read what I wanted to read.

  Nancy Pickard

  Children, Book, Grateful

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• New York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets.

  Nancy Pickard

  New York, Cities, World

  Nancy Pickard (1993). “But I Wouldn't Want to Die There: A Jenny Cain Mystery”, Thorndike Pr

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• You can have faith in writing itself. That's where to place your faith, in the same way that a pole vaulter places his faith in the laws of physics. He will go up in direct proportion to the strength with which he pushed off, and he will come down every time.

  Nancy Pickard

  Writing, Law, Have Faith

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• New York was an idea, I thought, an idea held simultaneously by thirteen million people.

  Nancy Pickard

  New York, Ideas, People

  Nancy Pickard (1993). “But I Wouldn't Want to Die There: A Jenny Cain Mystery”, Thorndike Pr

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• God is a name we give to love.

  Nancy Pickard

  God, Names, Giving

  Nancy Pickard (2002). “Storm warnings”

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• Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is.

  Nancy Pickard

  New York, Welcome, Stranger

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