Judith Rossner Quotes


"I'm a lousy journalist."
- Judith Rossner
"I'd like to get out of here without having to talk to the producer."
- Judith Rossner
(Related: Talk)

"I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel."
- Judith Rossner
(Related: Work)

"I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing."
- Judith Rossner
(Related: Old, Support, Writing, Years)

"I was dictating to my mother when I was 5."
- Judith Rossner
(Related: Mother)

"My abiding theme is separations."
- Judith Rossner
"My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky."
- Judith Rossner
(Related: Time, HusbBeing, First, Housewife, Years)

"The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing."
- Judith Rossner
(Related: Work, Writing)

"Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing."
- Judith Rossner
(Related: Publishing, Writers)

"It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad."
- Judith Rossner
(Related: Women, Body, Will)