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.
Judith RossnerAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: american
- Born: March 31, 1935
- Died: August 9, 2005
Related Authors
Topics
Quotes currently Trending
She wanted to be alone. Her mind was in a state of flutter and wonder, which made it impossible for her to be collected. She was in dancing, singing, exclaiming spirits; and till she had moved about, and talked to herself, and laughed and reflected, she could be fit for nothing rational.
Jane Austen
It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.
Damian Lewis
![Alison Lohman quote: "Obviously you don't want to be anonymous, but you don't want..."](/pic/94448/600x316/quotation-alison-lohman-obviously-you-dont-want-to-be-anonymous-but-you.jpg)
![Brendan Fraser quote: "The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process..."](/pic/206118/600x316/quotation-brendan-fraser-the-test-audience-holds-a-great-deal-of-power-in.jpg)