Pickard Quotes

#1. There are times when I myself no longer know whether I said and did the things I report or whether I dreamed them up. Anyway, I always dream true. If I lie a bit now and then it is mainly in the interest of truth.

Henry Miller

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Nancy Pickard

#5. God is a name we give to love.

Nancy Pickard

#6. ...in a county where romantic partners were as scarce as yaks.

Nancy Pickard

#7. The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.

Kenneth Clarke

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

Nancy Pickard

#9. The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.

Jacques Maritain

#10. An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

Sydney J. Harris

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

Nancy Pickard

#12. 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

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

Nancy Pickard

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

Nancy Pickard

#15. When I look at you I can see my future roll out in one long laugh, like a red carpet of fun and intelligence and hope. A ripple of joy that stretches into the horizon until it disappears. Not because it ceases to exist, but because it's infinite.

Julia Kent