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.

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

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists.