Rosellen Brown

If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though…

— Rosellen Brown

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…

— Rosellen Brown

[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.

— Rosellen Brown

One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control…

— Rosellen Brown

The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable.

— Rosellen Brown

Anne Pitkin's poems have such lyrical sweep, such a sensitive eye for the natural world as it touches the human, that reading…

— Rosellen Brown

All schoolchildren are hostages to red tape and fiscal insufficiency.

— Rosellen Brown

They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money…

— Rosellen Brown

Many of us write because we are readers and have grown up in a long tradition, and we want to be able…

— Rosellen Brown

When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick…

— Rosellen Brown

“Like deathbed conversions, last paragraph soul-saving does not convince.”

— Rosellen Brown