“If you want to be a writer, all you need is a piece of paper and a pencil, and I had a manual typewriter. It doesn't cost money to write. It costs money to make art. So I would just write. I would hand out stories in the classes in high school. And the teacher would say, "Whatever you do, don't become a writer."” IfsWantNeedsWritingArtStoriesHandsSchoolClassTeacherPiecesCostPaperHigh SchoolPencilsTypewritersManuals Author: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.” ThinkingWorldChildrenCountrySchoolThirdsYeahMedicalBiologyVillagePlasticBad DaySurgeonsThird WorldGraduate SchoolMedical SchoolUndergraduateThird World CountriesPlastic Surgeons Author:Tama Janowitz