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.

The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!

A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins even though that separation is likely to leave them worse off.

There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here.