Tama Janowitz Quotes

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• With publicity comes humiliation.
• Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.
• As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like it.
• Crimes, sins, nightmares, hunks of hair: it was surprising how many of them has something to dispose of. The more I charged, the easier it…
• I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.
• Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.
• I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn't know we were having fun, which is probably the way it…
• Never Mind Nirvana is the first novel I’ve read that makes music as important as food, clothing romance — a fresh twist millions will be able…
• Brownstein's is a fresh and jaunty voice, with a jazz snap all his own.
• I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.
• On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with…
• Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's…

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