Jennifer Haigh famous quotes

The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.
-- Jennifer Haigh

#Stories #My Family

It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.
-- Jennifer Haigh

#Loyalty #Powerful #Fog

I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .
-- Jennifer Haigh

#Voice #Familiar #Wanted

The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives...he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer.
-- Jennifer Haigh

#Art #Prayer #Distance

That renunciation of human closeness, of our deepest instincts: is it, in the end, simply too much to ask? Good men-sound, healthy men-can't make the sacrifice, or don't want to; has Holy Mother settled for the unsound and unhealthy? Has the Church, ever pragmatic, made do with what is left?
-- Jennifer Haigh

#Mother #Sacrifice #Men

Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.
-- Jennifer Haigh

#Reading #Writing #Practice

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I’ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.

Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.

Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.

My family background was deeply Christian.

But I don't fit. Your family hates me. I make your life difficult." That's where she was wrong. "No, You're my family. And as for making my life difficult, you, Blaire Wynn, make my life complete.

I've always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around.

I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.

What motivates me more than money are God and my family.

Eating at home is fine, as I can easily work around the foods that don't agree with me and still eat heartily with the rest of my family. I don't force them to follow my diet.