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 life; one woman's grounds for insanity is another woman's ground to a dramatic shaping of self. — 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 serpentine syntax. It's a delicious treat, studded with wise and beautifully observed detail, that places side by side those perpetually fascinating antagonists, the eager, casual American and the meticulous, pleasure-driven French. Christine Sneed knows everyone's intimate… — 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, to schedule your time and stick to it. Even if it’s just for an hour or so each day, you have to get a babysitter and make the time. If you’re going to make writing succeed… — 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 Image
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 Image
The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable. — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
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 Image
All schoolchildren are hostages to red tape and fiscal insufficiency. — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Like deathbed conversions, last paragraph soul-saving does not convince.” — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
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