Latest Anne Roiphe Quotes from Interviews

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• However, there probably is a slight connection between the high-wire, super sensitivity, open to everything and too much, and slightly fragile soul of the artist and the need to self-medicate, which can lead to bad trouble either in drugs, or alcohol. So it's not that there's no connection, it's just that we can't make too much of it because it isn't the addiction that's the issue, it's the fragility of some people who do artistic work, who end up in rehab somewhere or other.

  Anne Roiphe

  Artist, Self, Issues

  "Anne Roiphe’s Lust, Passion, and Very Good Memory". Interview with Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 15, 2011.

• One of the things about parents and children is that there is no way that you go through this without there being mutual anger.

  Anne Roiphe

  Children, Parent, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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.

  Anne Roiphe

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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.

  Anne Roiphe

  Hurt, Thinking, Pieces

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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.

  Anne Roiphe

  Mother, Mean, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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.

  Anne Roiphe

  Daughter, Writing, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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.

  Anne Roiphe

  Nice, Upset, Print

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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.

  Anne Roiphe

  Choices, Needs, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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.

  Anne Roiphe

  Thinking, Twelve, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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.

  Anne Roiphe

  Thinking, People, World

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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.

  Anne Roiphe

  War, Writing, D Day

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Anne Roiphe

  Thinking, Use, Modern

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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.

  Anne Roiphe

  Mother, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

• I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know what's really going on.

  Anne Roiphe

  Needs, World, Feels

  Source: therumpus.net

• We have to recognize that it is a very, very painful thing for people to be exposed to their social community, to be exposed in the world, as not what they would have wanted to be seen as. This is very painful and difficult for people.

  Anne Roiphe

  People, Community, World

  Source: therumpus.net

• I don't really think it comes as a shock to every writer if somebody in their family is mad at them. Yes, it's very upsetting. But it's inherent in the process of trying to make sense of one's life, which is what I think is perhaps at the bottom of writing at all.

  Anne Roiphe

  Writing, Thinking, Mad

  Source: therumpus.net

• Many writers do write about their families and their immediate loved ones and love experiences, either as children or as adults. And very often people get offended by it.

  Anne Roiphe

  Children, Writing, People

  Source: therumpus.net