Claire Messud Quotes

I have a strong preference for being alive.

I could hold on to everything for the rest of my life. I don't make friends easy, and I don't lose friends easy.

We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.

Maggie the cat is alive. I'm alive.

Most of the friends you trust are those you've known for 10 years.

Where there is love there is life.

I've seen the photos of me and Flo Rida. It doesn't matter how we met. We met. I don't want to say that we're a couple. I can definitely say that he's somebody in my life, and I'm definitely interested but I'm not serious with anybody.

I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.

Friends are the sunshine of life.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other. We have the food we like. We have our crazy little rituals. And we have each other.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.

Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.

My theme is, 'The spirit of friendship is the balance of life.' Not money. Not the World Series. It's friendship. The relationships I have with people, that's enough to keep me happy.

Love is the substance of human survival.

One may get everything in life but to find true and good friends is difficult.

If one is aware and alive, then it is one's relationships that make you live. It makes life worth living.

Life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive

I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive.

But do you want this? It's not much of a life. Don't you see? It's the first life I've had in four hundred years. With you--in the only way that matters--I'm alive again.