I don't want my novel to be like Madame Bovary, finely crafted with the life edited out of it. I want my novel to be like a friend telling me a story -- so we go off on thoughts; that's the way it is.
I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn’t know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is. - Tama Janowitz
I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn’t know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.
- Tama Janowitz
With publicity comes humiliation. - Tama Janowitz
With publicity comes humiliation.
The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions. - Tama Janowitz
The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.
In my writing I wanted to be liked for writing really unlikeable stuff. There were books that people, particularly women, hated so much. They said, "… - Tama Janowitz
In my writing I wanted to be liked for writing really unlikeable stuff. There were books that people, particularly women, hated so much. They said, "…
Most of my life is just spent lying in bed. I mean, it's enough pressure to write the words. Do I need to use the additional energy exerted by sittin… - Tama Janowitz
Most of my life is just spent lying in bed. I mean, it's enough pressure to write the words. Do I need to use the additional energy exerted by sittin…
I think powerful women don't care whether or not they're liked. - Tama Janowitz
I think powerful women don't care whether or not they're liked.
On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then … - Tama Janowitz
On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then …
I was like a social worker for lepers. My clients had a chunk of their body they wanted to give away; for a price I was there to receive it. - Tama Janowitz
I was like a social worker for lepers. My clients had a chunk of their body they wanted to give away; for a price I was there to receive it.
Why would I want to read something about somebody that's just a really nice, decent person who overcomes terrible trials? That's not how life is to m… - Tama Janowitz
Why would I want to read something about somebody that's just a really nice, decent person who overcomes terrible trials? That's not how life is to m…
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