“My mother had died when I wrote my first book. I was twenty-seven, so it was right at the beginning of my writing life. I don't know if she had lived, if I would have done it, certainly not quite like I did. But, you can't rethink it. You wrote what you wrote, it meant something to other people, and that's your good.” PeopleIfsKnowsWritingFirstsBookDoneMotherDiedTwentiesSevenWriting Life Author:Anne Roiphe
“If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.” IfsBookPlanningDesertIslandsStranded Author:Anne Roiphe
“You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.” GivingLittlesBookMomentsHumanityPleasureLoversInsightExpectingExpecting More Author:Anne Roiphe
