I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.
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She kept encouraging me when I was young, and so I just accepted it this was what I was going to do I was going to write books, ... But she never said anything about money or success, so none of that was built into my expectations. Just writing and getting published was enough at first.Judith Rossner
I want to write a book about a schoolteacher who's murdered picking up someone when she's cruising a singles bar.
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He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the wrong verbal move and find her ignorance exploding in her face.
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The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.
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Judith Rossner
I'd like to get out of here without having to talk to the producer.
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