Katie Roiphe Quotes

• In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.

  Katie Roiphe

  Muse, Spite, Position

  Katie Roiphe (2013). “In Praise of Messy Lives”, p.61, Canongate Books

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• She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was her talent. Her stories were little masterpieces of compression: she succinctly contained whole lifetimes in a few pages, every moment loaded with as much as it could bear.

  Katie Roiphe

  Bird, Atmosphere, Stories

  Katie Roiphe (2007). “Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910-1939”, p.70, Dial Press

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• Facebook is the novel we are all writing

  Katie Roiphe

  Writing, Novel

  Katie Roiphe (2013). “In Praise of Messy Lives”, p.155, Canongate Books

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