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

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.

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.