Mary Higgins Clark famous quotes

03-26-2025

If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.
-- Mary Higgins Clark

#Being Happy #Love Life #Want
When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.
-- Mary Higgins Clark

#Book #Mean #Next
Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.
-- Mary Higgins Clark

#Reality
The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule.
-- Mary Higgins Clark

#Inspirational #Glasses #Flames
Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.
-- Mary Higgins Clark

#Writing #Once Upon A Time #Matter
A library is a path to the future--find yours there.
-- Mary Higgins Clark

#Library #Path
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."
-- Mary Higgins Clark

#Believe #Blessed #Angel
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.
-- Mary Higgins Clark

#Hate #Party #Doors
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.
-- Mary Higgins Clark

#Book #Writing #Hands
Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs
-- Mary Higgins Clark

#Hero #Red #Triumph
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.
-- Mary Higgins Clark

#Happiness #Mercury #Pieces
live your life as if you may lose everything.
-- Mary Higgins Clark

#Live Your Life #May
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 tow the car tissue seperates and the wound is raw again.
-- Mary Higgins Clark

#Grief #Play #Car

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