Judith Rossner Novelist Quotations

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.

I'd like to get out of here without having to talk to the producer.

I was dictating to my mother when I was 5.

The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.

I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.

I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.

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.