Judith Rossner Quotes

I won't give up my day job of design.

I wish [my wife] would [work] because - especially now the kind of - I mean, honesty is hardly the word. She writes with a ferocity of clarity that - nobody else around has now.

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

My main hobby is working. I love what I do.

Writing, and its theatre of operation, is better than working shifts packing frozen sausages; that's all I need to think about if I'm having difficulties.

But most is all to do with work. There are aspects of work that are enjoyable, that you could call a hobby.

I never think career.

I like to work. I enjoy once a year, doing a film.

Let me put it this way: I don't plan to retire. What would I do, become a brain surgeon? I mean, a brain surgeon can retire and write novels, but a novelist can't retire and do brain surgery - or at least he better not.

I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it's hard for me not to. I guess I've been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people.

Work is both my living and my pleasure.

I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

Work is life. Work is opportunity.

Working is living to me.

I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.

I can't imagine not working, really. I just think work's more fun than fun.

I like the work that I get to do.

My generation were all careerists.

My life is very much consumed with work.

Through my whole career, that's been a major thing - bringing my family with me.

I would work every day if I could.

Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn't imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.

You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.

A man's prime interest in life must be his work.