Tama Janowitz Quotes

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.

I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

At a mixer at the Art and Architecture School, I met Ray Connors. He had small, worried eyes and fine, babyish hair, already receding. His back was hurting him; two years ago he had fallen down an elevator shaft. He was graduating from the Architecture School in January. He went off to get me a glass of wine; by the time he came back, I had practically forgotten his existence.

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.

I had a hunger for things I knew realistically I didn't actually care for.

With publicity comes humiliation.

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.

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.

Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.

I don't like him...he makes me feel like he's going to throw me in a coffin and walk around on top of it.

It was strange how most of the time we got along so well, but then there were these periods when it was a good things the knives were in the drawer and not out on display.

...and it made me uncomfortable the way this guy was eating a scrawny chicken wing and looking at me. You know, I just wanted to tell him to knock it off and be a person.

I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.