Tama Janowitz quotes
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“With publicity comes humiliation.”
-- Tama JanowitzSource : 1992 In the International Herald Tribune, 8 Sep.
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“I was like a social worker for lepers. My clients had a chunk of their body they wanted to give away; for a price I was there to receive it.”
-- Tama JanowitzSource : Tama Janowitz (1991). “Slaves of New York”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
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“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 what I do, every day.”
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“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 airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.”
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“I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.”
-- Tama JanowitzSource : "Q&A with Gotham Scribes Pete Hamill and Tama Janowitz". Interview with Boris Kachka, nymag.com.
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“Brownstein's is a fresh and jaunty voice, with a jazz snap all his own.”
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“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 to identify with – and the music of Lindquist’s language is a perfect match for the subject. I think he’s the writer to watch in the new millennium.”
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“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 always is.”
-- Tama JanowitzSource : "Q&A with Gotham Scribes Pete Hamill and Tama Janowitz". Interview with Boris Kachka, nymag.com.
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“Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.”
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“I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.”
-- Tama JanowitzSource : "Q&A with Gotham Scribes Pete Hamill and Tama Janowitz". Interview with Boris Kachka, nymag.com.
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“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 was for them to breathe freely once more.”
-- Tama JanowitzSource : Tama Janowitz (1991). “Slaves of New York”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
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“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.”
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“Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.”
-- Tama JanowitzSource : Slaves of New York "Modern Saint 271" (1986)
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“I don't want my novel to be like Madame Bovary, finely crafted with the life edited out of it. I want my novel to be like a friend telling me a story -- so we go off on thoughts; that's the way it is.”
-- Tama Janowitz
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