Judith Rossner Quotes

Judith Rossner — American Novelist born on March 31, 1935, died on August 09, 2005

Judith Perelman Rossner was an American novelist, best known for her 1975 novel Looking for Mr. Goodbar. It was inspired by the murder of Roseann Quinn and examined the underside of the 1970s sexual liberation movement. This was her bestselling work, and it was adapted as a film of the same name, starring Diane Keaton. Rossner published other novels, set in both contemporary and historical times. Her most successful post-Goodbar novel was 1983's August, about the relationship between a troubled young woman in New York and her psychoanalyst with emotional troubles of her own... (wikipedia)

I'm a lousy journalist.

I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.

Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing.

It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.

Judith Rossner Quotes

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