Joy Fielding Quotes

#1. You're the one who can do no wrong." "I do plenty wrong." "You don't have to tell me.

Joy Fielding

#2. We all look for lost time.

Christian Lacroix

#3. Can't save everyone,

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#4. My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book.

Joy Fielding

#5. Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

Henry Drummond

#6. The point is that we have no control. The point is that there are no guarantees, that we never know what's going to happen in life, but we can't give up. The point is that, fallible as we all are, we have to keep trying, we have to keep reaching out to others.

Joy Fielding

#7. I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I like to read. They're popular commercial fiction. That's what they are.

Joy Fielding

#8. I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.

Barry Eisler

#9. Now I love the act of creating a new image. When everything comes together, it feels like ecstasy. It's like a climax.

Mario Sorrenti

#10. I held out my hand, and she placed her small one into mine without question. And goddamn it, that satisfied me. Immensely.

Belle Aurora

#11. For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.

Will Durant

#12. Once lost, they are rarely found.

Joy Fielding

#13. October was always the least dependable of months ... full of ghosts and shadows.

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#14. Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

Joy Fielding

#15. Make covenants and receive ordinances for yourself. Then steadily and consistently work to provide ordinances in the temple for your own ancestors.

Richard G. Scott

#16. No matter how grim things may seem, they always get better.

Joy Fielding

#17. Would he be haunted, as she knew she would be, by the memory of the love they'd once clung to, yet tented to so recklessly, and abandoned so carelessly?

Joy Fielding

#18. Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#19. I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good. And my stories are really involving.

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#20. The sad truth is that truth is almost irrelevant in a court of law.

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#21. There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don't think too many writers can say that.

Joy Fielding

#22. Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Henry Fielding

#23. A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program
players not learning.

Don Meyer

#24. Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.

Joy Fielding

#25. There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.

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#26. I always say what's on my mind. No need to second guess with me.

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#27. I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.

Joy Fielding

#28. I'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I could fly.

Joy Fielding

#29. We are who we pretend to be.

Joy Fielding

#30. Perfect happiness is knowing that everyone I love is healthy, safe, and content.

Joy Fielding