Judith Rossner

I'm a lousy journalist.

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

My abiding theme is separations.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

If you look at my CV, just about everything I have done has come through a publicly funded institution; it is a career entirely built on that sort of support.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.