Judith Rossner Quotes

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

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• A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Real
  • Book
  • U.S.

• I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Book
  • American
  • Community

• I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Book
  • Me
  • Challenge

• You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
  • You
  • Made
  • Materials

• I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Book
  • See
  • Now

• 'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's being made into a movie and it makes you a little annoyed at first? But I would've loved to play the Shia LaBeouf role in that movie when I was younger. I just wanted to be the rebellious kid on the old digging camp.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Love
  • Book
  • Movie

• My method is, I just sit down and write a book.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Book
  • Write
  • Down

• There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Book
  • Feeling
  • You

• Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Comic

• I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Book
  • Want
  • Style

• I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • People
  • World
  • Book

• A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Book
  • First
  • Concern

• I hate to badmouth any book or writer, because I know how it feels to be on the other end of that.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Hate
  • End

• I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Book
  • America
  • Christian

• I find just in terms of free time I'm always envious of people I know who... listen to music, watch films, play games, read books. I have to pick. And I find frequently that if I've got Sophie's Choice, I'll try to keep up with music and keep up with films. So my book reading and comic reading and game playing is terrible and infrequent.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Meeting

• The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Life
  • Live
  • Book

• I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or not wouldn't make a difference, I would still be waiting to get cremated.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Waiting

• Rereading 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was struck by what I had forgotten of the book: in a manner of pages, we encounter shame, history, ruin, conflicting stories, and wounds badly healed; in short, the South.

  

  Kevin Young
  • Book
  • History

• I have modes, mental modes that I get in, and when I'm on the road, I focus very much on doing the work. On playing the show, on being good every night. And part of me just gets switched off. The part that's very private and very personal and very intimate. That especially, that part of me gets shut off.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • Good
  • Work
  • Night

• I'm a realist. And realists don't fool themselves.

  

  Adam Dunn
  • Fool
  • Themselves
  • Realist

• It's way easier to write for other people. Yourself isn't in it. When you write for yourself, you overthink, and you become paranoid. When you write for others, it isn't about you.

  

  Sam Dew
  • People
  • You
  • Yourself

• The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Die

• 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
  • Book
  • Made
  • Supported