75 Quotes by Anne Roiphe

I think our material is our lives. That’s part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it.

I don’t really think it comes as a shock to every writer if somebody in their family is mad at them. Yes, it’s very upsetting. But it’s inherent in the process of trying to make sense of one’s life, which is what I think is perhaps at the bottom of writing at all.

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It’s much better if one simply does.