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  • An idea in the head is like a rock in the shoe; I just can't wait to get it out.

    Rocks   Shoes   Ideas  
  • Since no one really knows what or who God is, or whether God is at all, why can't God be hope?

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Intensely Alice”, p.222, Simon and Schuster
  • You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.

    Life   Couple   Knows  
    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Alice Alone”, p.68, Simon and Schuster
  • It's all right to have secrets, ... as long as you don't have any secrets from yourself.

    Long   Secret  
    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “The Agony of Alice”, p.99, Simon and Schuster
  • Happiness is wanting what you have.

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Achingly Alice”, p.129, Simon and Schuster
  • I can never understand why people who have not seen me for a while ask if I am still writing. They might as well ask me if I am still breathing.

  • People can't help the way they feel, only what they do about it. They can no longer not be attracted to someone other than their spouse than they can say they are not hungry or not thirsty or not frightened or embarrassed. It's when you act on that attraction when you know it would be bad for your marriage that is the problem. In a good marriage, the couple are each as committed to the marriage as they are to each other.

    Couple   People   Helping  
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  • We all have found ourselves in awkward, embarrassing situations, often brought on by ourselves - thinking we are saying something clever, for example, when it turns out to sound really mean or stupid. Those are the kind of embarrassing situations that we could have avoided. "Welcome to the human race," is about the only comfort we can give ourselves.

    Clever   Stupid   Mean  
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  • The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors around mechanically to get a feel of the action.

  • If it doesn't sweat, jiggle, or pant, it's not alive.

    Sweat   Alive   Ifs  
    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “The Grooming of Alice”, p.23, Simon and Schuster
  • …and I’m thinking how nothing is as simple as you guess-not right or wrong, not Judd Travers, not even me or this dog I got here. But the good part is I saved Shiloh and opened my eyes some. Now that ain’t bad for eleven.

    Dog   Eye   Simple  
    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Lois Lenski, Martin Luther King (Jr.), Ezra Bowen, Cynthia Rylant (2000). “Shiloh and related readings”
  • Writing, for me, is the best occupation I can think of, and there is nothing in the world I would rather do.

  • It's what they say to do when you're depressed, you know. Walk in someone else's shoes for a while, and your own won't feel so tight.

    Shoes   Walks   Feels  
    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Alice Alone”, p.117, Simon and Schuster
  • One way to tell if you're really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you don't feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or surprising or cool. You can just be together. You can just be.

    Awkward   Together   Way  
    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2010). “It's Not Like I Planned It This Way: Including Alice; Alice on Her Way; Alice in the Know”, p.312, Simon and Schuster
  • I also know that you can lie not only by what you say but what you don't say.

    Lying   Knows  
    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (1991). “Shiloh”, p.57, Simon and Schuster
  • When you’ve found the right one - when you see him, when you’re with him - you’ll feel like you’re coming home.

    Home   Like You   Found  
    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2014). “Now I'll Tell You Everything”, p.200, Simon and Schuster
  • We all have our own battles to fight, and sometimes we have to go it alone. I'm stronger than you think, you'd be surprised.

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2014). “Now I'll Tell You Everything”, p.492, Simon and Schuster
  • Why is life so complicated....?' I asked. 'To keep us from being bored,' he said.

  • I used to think that when I grew up there wouldn't be so many rules. Back in elementary school there were rules about what entrance you used in the morning, what door you used going home, when you could talk in the library, how many paper towels you could use in the rest room, and how many drinks of water you could get during recess. And there was always somebody watching to make sure. What I'm finding out about growing older is that there are just as many rules about lots of things, but there's nobody watching.

    Morning   Home   School  
    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Alice in Rapture, Sort Of”, p.66, Simon and Schuster
  • Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks. For example, I may see a picture of a man in a magazine and say, 'That's exactly what the father in my book looks like!'...I save everything that will help--maps, articles, hand-jotted notes, bits of dialogue from conversations that I overhear.

    Notebook   Father   Men  
  • There were so many of these moments that could never be captured accurately, even in the camcorder, only in the heart.

    Life   Heart   Moments  
    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2014). “Now I'll Tell You Everything”, p.343, Simon and Schuster
  • Saying hello to something new means saying good-bye to something old and loved.

    Mean   Bye   Saying Hello  
    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Incredibly Alice”, p.202, Simon and Schuster
  • Anyone of any age, any race, any background, any education - if they write an interesting enough book - can become a published author. What it takes is imagination, the ability to put words on a paper in an interesting, perhaps even unique way, the fortitude to rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, and polish, edit, polish, edit until the story sort of sings. I think everyone has a story inside him, but only a few have the persistence and, of course, the interest, to write it down and see it through.

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  • The Three Cs, I told myself. When you're not Comfortable with it, it's not a Compliment, it's Creepy.

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Alice in Charge”, p.147, Simon and Schuster
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