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Judith Thurman is an American writer renowned for her insightful portrayals of celebrity lives and her sharp analytical skills in literature. Her works span a wide range of genres from novels to biographies, and are celebrated for their unique narrative style and rich historical context.

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“The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript and suggests changes.”

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Author:Judith Thurman

“As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon - there is often a "variorum" edition of the work that presents its variants. I think publishing most other writing that way would be impossible, economically, for publishers, and very ill-advised for authors.”

Thinking Way Writing Would Be Cases Impossible Ill Publishing Multiple Publishers Great Writers Emily Canon Proust

Author:Judith Thurman

“Conservatives like Palin and Reagan and others do seem to love the series, but so do people of all political stripes and backgrounds. I speak about the series' "radiant simplicity."”

People Seems Political Speak Series Simplicity Backgrounds Radiant Palin Stripes

Author:Judith Thurman

“If you are forced to describe things for someone else, it sharpens your senses. And also your sense of how hard it is to make the translation from the vibrant, multi-faceted world to a sentence that distils it.”

Ifs World Hard Sentences Senses Translations

Author:Judith Thurman

“Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.”

Art Family Life Monument

Author:Judith Thurman

“We have one life to live - and one chance to live it in the richest way possible.”

Way Chance One Chance One Life To Live

Author:Judith Thurman

“Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake of liquor to a liter and a half of wine.”

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Author:Judith Thurman

“This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish.”

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Author:Judith Thurman

“Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.”

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Author:Judith Thurman

“A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet”

Persons Mad Visionaries Mad Person

Author:Judith Thurman

“And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown’s most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career.”

May Careers Lessons Fulfillment Brown Enlightened Autonomy Inseparable Helen

Author:Judith Thurman

“Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room.”

Firsts Long Made Pleasure Rooms Feminism Fashion Stranger Guilty Dressings Sisterhood Dressing Rooms Guilty Pleasure

Author:Judith Thurman

“Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize.”

Luxury Insecurity

Book:Cleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire

Source: Cleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire

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Born: October 28, 1946
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 13

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