If you are forced to describe things for someone else, it sharpens your senses. And also your sense of how hard it is to make the translation from the vibrant, multi-faceted world to a sentence that distils it. — 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… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
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… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
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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