Rona Jaffe

“He was the kind of man who has so many women you could never be jealous of any one of them.”

“The thing you are most afraid to write is the thing you should write.”

“It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to visit everywhere.”

“I don't think I'm a feminist. I'm a humanist.”

“A writer has to be a bit of a monster.”

“People want to read about what is happening to them, not what happened to their grandmother.”

“Men are a luxury, not a necessity.”

“The best of everything is a phrase. It’s a ticket to a dream.”

“I write about the things I'm afraid of.”

“You're only a victim once. The next time you're a volunteer.”

“When you are a writer you are not a spinster or a bachelorette, you are a writer.”

“The only real security is the ability to produce.”

“In real life, people did not act like that.”