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“I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it.”

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Anne Roiphe is a renowned film writer, born on December 25, 1935. Her works are known for their profound emotions and unique perspectives, contributing to the classic films in the film industry. more

“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.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Firsts Book Done Mother Died Twenties Seven Writing Life

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“People always think their world is coming to an end if they're exposed, and of course it isn't coming to an end; it goes right on exactly the way it always was.”

People Ifs Thinking World Way Ends Courses Exposed Coming To An End

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“It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had been in World War II, I might have been writing about D-Day over and over again.”

Ifs World Writing Has Beens War Might Trauma War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Might Have Been D Day

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“I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.”

Thinking Way May Different Enough Stories Different Ways Twelve

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“You really can't say things that upset someone in print and expect them to be nice and leave you their money. That's just not reasonable.”

Nice Upset Reasonable Print Being Nice

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“You need your freedom. You need to be able to do what you want to do as a journalist, as a person who's speaking for other women as you speak for yourself, and you make a choice. You have to be tough enough to take the consequences of that choice.”

Want Needs Persons Enough Able Choices Speak Tough Consequence What You Want Journalist Your Freedom

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“I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint.”

Ifs Writing Two Wish Painting Daughter Paint Lawyer

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“You have to have a certain kind of thickening of the hide. I mean, I'm not particularly worried about what other people think. If other people think that I was not the world's most perfect mother, they are completely right.”

People Ifs Thinking World Kind Mean Mother Certain Perfect Worried

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“What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.”

People Thinking Writing Matter Majors Concern Think Of Me

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“I would prefer you not to say, "That was the most terribly written piece I've ever read." That would hurt me. But you don't think I'm the best person in the world? Well, alright.”

Thinking World Wells Persons Hurt Pieces Written Alright Hurt Me Best Person

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