Rona Jaffe Quotes

• almost all American writers tend to overwrite, to tell too much. I get the disillusioned feeling that novels, today, are sold by the pound, like groceries. It actually takes a great deal more discipline to be able to leave out rather than to throw in everything. This means that you have to say in one sentence precisely what you mean, instead of saying sort of what you kind of mean in hundreds of sentences and hoping the sum total will add up.

  Rona Jaffe

  Mean, Discipline, Feelings

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• A blond in a red dress can do without introductions -- but not without a bodyguard.

  Rona Jaffe

  Dresses, Red, Wealth

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• boredom has a tendency to bring out the worst in people's faces.

  Rona Jaffe

  People, Boredom, Faces

  Rona Jaffe (2005). “The Best of Everything”, p.20, Penguin

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