They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are. — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though without his… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share
It’s a job. It’s not a hobby. You don’t write the way you build a model airplane. You have to sit down and work,… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share
[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time. — Rosellen Brown Copy Share
One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control of his… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share
The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable. — Rosellen Brown Copy Share
Anne Pitkin's poems have such lyrical sweep, such a sensitive eye for the natural world as it touches the human, that reading Winter Arguments… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share
They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share
Many of us write because we are readers and have grown up in a long tradition, and we want to be able to add… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share
When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share
“Like deathbed conversions, last paragraph soul-saving does not convince.” — Rosellen Brown Copy Share
