Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

- Rosemary Mahoney

I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actually tremble with fear. The fear, of course, is that …

- Rosemary Mahoney

I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.

- Rosemary Mahoney

I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time ha…

- Rosemary Mahoney

The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others.

- Rosemary Mahoney

Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler sens…

- Rosemary Mahoney

I fear that my mind would starve and that I might find myself in danger if I had no visual information, that it's chiefly the light, the shapes, the …

- Rosemary Mahoney

I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person.

- Rosemary Mahoney