This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish. — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room. — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown’s most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon - there is often a "variorum" edition of the work that presents its variants. I think publishing most other writing that way would be impossible, economically, for publishers, and very ill-advised for authors. — Judith Thurman Copy Share
The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript and suggests… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
“There's some instinctive attraction that draws you, as a writer, to your subject. And the attraction usually has to do with some primal personal thing that, of course, you have no idea about. In the end, the piece always comes down to the one or two sentences you struggle over. The sentences where you try to say explicitly what it… — Judith Thurman Copy Share
We have one life to live - and one chance to live it in the richest way possible. — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
Conservatives like Palin and Reagan and others do seem to love the series, but so do people of all political stripes and backgrounds. I… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
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