Tama Janowitz Quotes

• Mucho después de que caiga la bomba y tú y tus buenas acciones hayáis desaparecido, las cucarachas seguirán aquí, merodeando por las calles como carros blindados.

  Tama Janowitz

  Fall, Kind Deeds, Long

  Slaves of New York "Modern Saint 271" (1986)

  40 Copiar cita

• The older a woman gets, the more invisible you become.

  Tama Janowitz

  Invisible

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

  6 Copiar cita

• Most of my life is just spent lying in bed. I mean, it's enough pressure to write the words. Do I need to use the additional energy exerted by sitting up?

  Tama Janowitz

  Mentir, Escribir, Mal

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

  5 Copiar cita

• Why would I want to read something about somebody that's just a really nice, decent person who overcomes terrible trials? That's not how life is to me.

  Tama Janowitz

  Nice, Overcoming, Trials

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copiar cita

• In my writing I wanted to be liked for writing really unlikeable stuff. There were books that people, particularly women, hated so much. They said, "I threw it against the wall!" Which, in my opinion, was a compliment. Because it's very hard to get somebody to throw something.

  Tama Janowitz

  Wall, Book, Writing

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copiar cita

• 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.

  Tama Janowitz

  Fun, Way, Feels

  "Q&A with Gotham Scribes Pete Hamill and Tama Janowitz". Interview with Boris Kachka, nymag.com.

  4 Copiar cita

• 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.

  Tama Janowitz

  Giving, Body, Clients

  Tama Janowitz (1991). “Slaves of New York”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copiar cita

• On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.

  Tama Janowitz

  Country, Children, Bad Day

  17 Copiar cita

• I think powerful women don't care whether or not they're liked.

  Tama Janowitz

  Powerful, Thinking, Care

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copiar cita

• The novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.

  Tama Janowitz

  Revision, Firsts, Novel

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

  5 Copiar cita

• With publicity comes humiliation.

  Tama Janowitz

  Publicity, Humiliation

  1992 In the International Herald Tribune, 8 Sep.

  14 Copiar cita

• 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.

  Tama Janowitz

  Book, Harder, Wells

  5 Copiar cita

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

  Tama Janowitz

  Fun, Thinking, Has Beens

  "Q&A with Gotham Scribes Pete Hamill and Tama Janowitz". Interview with Boris Kachka, nymag.com.

  4 Copiar cita

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

  Tama Janowitz

  Voice, Jazz, Snaps

  4 Copiar cita

• Whether you're acting or you're writing, your skin is just basically ripped off and you're putting yourself out there. At least the acting part comes with a bit more social interaction. And you're a bit less isolated because you are working with the director and the crew, and there's a general camaraderie. Writing, you're totally isolated. You're just trying to get the words on paper.

  Tama Janowitz

  Writing, Acting, Skins

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copiar cita

• I think in a lot of ways, writing, when you're really in there, is like being an actress because you're in somebody else's head.

  Tama Janowitz

  Escribir, Pensar, Camino

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copiar cita

• Si quieres escribir sobre una persona que no es agradable, la gente dice: "Es un mal libro. Es sobre alguien a quien no soporto". Pero no se trata de eso. No te tiene que gustar un personaje para que te guste un libro. La mayoría de las veces, la gente juzga mal y dice: "No me gustó el libro". No, no te gustó el personaje. Eso no hace que el libro sea menos interesante. De hecho, para mí, lo hace más interesante.

  Tama Janowitz

  Niza, Libro, Escritura

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copiar cita

• 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.

  Tama Janowitz

  Writing, Responsibility, Thinking

  4 Copiar cita

• 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.

  Tama Janowitz

  Hair, Nightmare, Sin

  Tama Janowitz (1991). “Slaves of New York”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copiar cita

• Escribo lo que quiero escribir. Pero es casi un acto de rebeldía por mi parte. Porque como persona, siempre he querido ser muy simpática, y creo que eso es algo horrible, sobre todo para las mujeres. Siempre estás como, "Oh, espero no haber herido los sentimientos de nadie. "¡Espero caerles bien!" Y eso es tan estúpido.

  Tama Janowitz

  Hurt, Stupid, Writing

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copiar cita

• I think it's true about people now being closer to their parents, since the '60s, really. The parents are no longer from a different planet, the 1950s ideas of American family. We could be friends with our parents. After the '60s, it wasn't like a person smoking pot was what the parents would be appalled at.

  Tama Janowitz

  Pensamiento, Ideas, Personas

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copiar cita

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

  Tama Janowitz

  Whole Life, Whole, Felt

  "Q&A with Gotham Scribes Pete Hamill and Tama Janowitz". Interview with Boris Kachka, nymag.com.

  4 Copiar cita

• 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.

  Tama Janowitz

  Stories, Want, Way

  4 Copiar cita

• If you want to be a writer, all you need is a piece of paper and a pencil, and I had a manual typewriter. It doesn't cost money to write. It costs money to make art. So I would just write. I would hand out stories in the classes in high school. And the teacher would say, "Whatever you do, don't become a writer."

  Tama Janowitz

  Teacher, Art, Writing

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copiar cita

• Fame is really great in a lot of ways, you know? People are a lot nicer to you. Like, the more famous you are, the more free presents you get. And invitations to really amazing things.

  Tama Janowitz

  People, Way, Fame

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copiar cita

También te puede gustar:

Jay McInerney

Bret Easton Ellis

Yehuda Amichai

Bernadette Peters

Shalom Auslander

Ann Beattie

Donna Tartt

Craig Clevenger