Judith Rossner

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

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.

I'm a lousy journalist.

I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself.

With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal.