23 Quotes by Tama Janowitz

Brownstein’s is a fresh and jaunty voice, with a jazz snap all his own.

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.

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.

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.

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.