Judith Rossner
Judith Rossner
Judith Perelman Rossnerwas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 March 1935
CountryUnited States of America
Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here, a mind and a body. To say there's no proof my body exists would be arty and specious and if my mind is more ephemeral, less provable, the solution of being a writer with solid (touchable, tearable, burnable) books is as close as anyone has come to a perfect answer.
I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.
I'd like to get out of here without having to talk to the producer.
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.
I want to write a book about a schoolteacher who's murdered picking up someone when she's cruising a singles bar.
My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.
I was dictating to my mother when I was 5.
The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.