Tama Janowitz Quotes

#1. Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

Tama Janowitz

#2. Bouncing ideas off people when you're thinking up comedy is great.

Casey Nicholaw

#3. From the bruised heel of Genesis (3:15) to the reigning lamb of Revelation (22:1), the Bible is a redemptive story of a crucified Messiah who will accomplish a royal victory through atoning suffering.

Jeremy R. Treat

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

Tama Janowitz

#5. 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

#6. 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.

Tama Janowitz

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. The ground is bare and hard / and will hold all secrets / and the sky cares not / for the games of those beneath it.

Steven Erikson

#10. Who's that, the windbreaker?

Paul Heyman

#11. 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

#12. 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.

Tama Janowitz

#13. 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

#14. If one had to fill in, little by little, the gap between day and night, it would take an eternity to do it. But the sun rises and the darkness is dispelled- a moment is sufficient to overcome an infinite distance.

Rabindranath Tagore

#15. For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Storm Jameson

#16. 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

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

Tama Janowitz

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

Tama Janowitz

#19. I don't have a computer. I'm going to wait until that whole fad is over. I was suckered in on the Pet Rock. Not twice, people.

Kathleen Madigan

#20. 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

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

Tama Janowitz

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

Tama Janowitz

#23. With publicity comes humiliation.

Tama Janowitz

#24. ...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.

Tama Janowitz

#25. If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.

Jane Goodall