Often, when she claimed to be cleaning the house, he would come upon her fondling a spoon, attempting – by using psychic energy – to bend it with mind power alone. She insisted this could be done. Yet even if possible, he said, he didn’t need or want their spoons bent.

— Tama Janowitz

Tama Janowitz Quotes

With publicity comes humiliation.

— Tama Janowitz

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

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

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

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

— Tama Janowitz

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

— Tama Janowitz

Never Mind Nirvana is the first novel I’ve read that makes music as important as food, clothing romance – a fresh twist millions will be able to identify with – and the music of Lindquist’s language is a perfect match for the subject. I think he’s the writer to watch in the new millennium.

— Tama Janowitz
Romance

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

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

— Tama Janowitz

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

— Tama Janowitz

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

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

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

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

I don’t know what my greatest fear is; maybe just that I’ll be caught and discovered, accused of being a child in an adult’s body.

— Tama Janowitz

Often, when she claimed to be cleaning the house, he would come upon her fondling a spoon, attempting – by using psychic energy – to bend it with mind power alone. She insisted this could be done. Yet even if possible, he said, he didn’t need or want their spoons bent.

— Tama Janowitz
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