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 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.