Work
Guest's first book, Ordinary People, published in 1976, was made into a 1980 film Ordinary People that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. This novel and two others, Second Heaven (1982) and Errands (1997), are about adolescent children forced to deal with a crisis in their family. Guest also wrote the screenplay for the 1987 film Rachel River.
Guest co-authored the mystery Killing Time in St. Cloud (1988) with fellow novelist Rebecca Hill. Guest's most recent book, The Tarnished Eye (2004), is loosely based on a real unsolved crime in her native Michigan.
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Famous quotes containing the word work:
“Wed like to fight but we fear defeat,
Wed like to work but were feeling too weak,
Wed like to be sick but wed get the sack,
Wed like to behave, wed like to believe,
Wed like to love, but weve lost the knack.”
—Cecil Day Lewis (19041972)
“They should own who can administer, not they who hoard and conceal; not they who, the greater proprietors they are, are only the greater beggars, but they whose work carves out work for more, opens a path for all.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Its true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)