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> [“The worst that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-rakoff/the-worst-that-being-an-artist-could-do-to-you-would-be-that-it-would/)

[Joanna Rakoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-rakoff/)

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## More by Joanna Rakoff

> [“was so out of place that I disappeared.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-rakoff/was-so-out-of-place-that-i-disappeared/)

[Joanna Rakoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-rakoff/)

> [“She’d never spent entire days lying on her bed reading, entire nights making up complicated stories in her head. She’d not dreamed of willing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-rakoff/she-d-never-spent-entire-days-lying-on-her-bed-reading-entire-nights/)

[Joanna Rakoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-rakoff/)

> [“What terrified her was the set of circumstances that allowed her to eat a full pound of spaghetti, the unmoored, untethered quality of her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-rakoff/what-terrified-her-was-the-set-of-circumstances-that-allowed-her-to/)

[Joanna Rakoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-rakoff/)

> [“The worst that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-rakoff/the-worst-that-being-an-artist-could-do-to-you-would-be-that-it-would/)

[Joanna Rakoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-rakoff/)

> [“She needed this wedding—this perfect, minutely orchestrated wedding—to shout, This is who I am. To tell us all that she was not that girl…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-rakoff/she-needed-this-wedding-this-perfect-minutely-orchestrated-wedding-to/)

[Joanna Rakoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-rakoff/)

> [“Salinger was not cutesy. His work was not nostalgic. These were not fairy tales about child geniuses traipsing the streets of Old New York.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-rakoff/salinger-was-not-cutesy-his-work-was-not-nostalgic-these-were-not/)

[Joanna Rakoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-rakoff/)

> [“Why couldn’t Caitlin confide in Vix? Because she knew Vix would judge her. Because she knew Vix would refuse to understand. Because it was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-rakoff/why-couldn-t-caitlin-confide-in-vix-because-she-knew-vix-would-judge/)

[Joanna Rakoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-rakoff/)

> [“Alone in her anxieties and insecurities, alone in the tyranny of her mind, but also simply, literally, physically alone, her only companion an oversized,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-rakoff/alone-in-her-anxieties-and-insecurities-alone-in-the-tyranny-of-her/)

[Joanna Rakoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-rakoff/)

> [“So we’re all doing a pretty good job not revealing our emotions, right? But if you can’t reveal your emotions, how do you go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-rakoff/so-we-re-all-doing-a-pretty-good-job-not-revealing-our-emotions-right/)

[Joanna Rakoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-rakoff/)

> [“It gets easier once you’re no longer graded, once you have to assess your actions for yourself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-rakoff/it-gets-easier-once-you-re-no-longer-graded-once-you-have-to-assess/)

[Joanna Rakoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-rakoff/)

> [“Writing makes you a writer,” he’d told me. “If you get up every morning and write, then you’re a writer. Publishing doesn’t make you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-rakoff/writing-makes-you-a-writer-he-d-told-me-if-you-get-up-every-morning/)

[Joanna Rakoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-rakoff/)

> [“On Madison, the sun shone in jagged beams and the air held the promise, the hint, of warmth,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-rakoff/on-madison-the-sun-shone-in-jagged-beams-and-the-air-held-the-promise/)

[Joanna Rakoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-rakoff/)

> [“Reading manuscripts was the exact opposite of reading for grad school: it was pure instinct, with some emotion and intelligence thrown in.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-rakoff/reading-manuscripts-was-the-exact-opposite-of-reading-for-grad-school/)

[Joanna Rakoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-rakoff/)

> [“Don’s European friends occasionally came up in conversation, but they’d yet to materialize in real life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-rakoff/don-s-european-friends-occasionally-came-up-in-conversation-but-they/)

[Joanna Rakoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-rakoff/)

> [“I’d known, of course, that a blizzard was coming, or I suppose I’d known, for I didn’t own a television or a radio, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joanna-rakoff/i-d-known-of-course-that-a-blizzard-was-coming-or-i-suppose-i-d-known/)

[Joanna Rakoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joanna-rakoff/)

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