Top 8 Quotes by Tama Janowitz

About Tama Janowitz

These are some quotes by American author Tama Janowitz Novelist, who was born on April 12, 1957.

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

Tama Janowitz

Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.

Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.

Tama Janowitz

I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn't know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.

I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn't know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.

Tama Janowitz

With publicity comes humiliation.

With publicity comes humiliation.

Tama Janowitz

I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.

I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.

Tama Janowitz

On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.

Tama Janowitz

I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

Tama Janowitz

Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.

Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.

Tama Janowitz

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