"I didn't know about the fashion world, or at least I took it for slightly superficial. I didn't realize the extent of it."

“I am creating an atmosphere! Oh, Unc, we’ve finally got bodies in this joint! Paying bodies. We could have a good racket going here.” “I’m not interested in a ‘racket.’ I’m an academic.” “That’s okay, Unc. I won’t hold it against you.”

“I always feel I'm an amateur. I don't most of the time know what I'm doing.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

“I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.”

Source : Interview with Edouard Roditi in 1958. "Dialogues: Conversations With European Artists at Mid-Century". Book by Edouard Roditi, p. 114, 1990.

“Being published is not a necessary validation or a path everyone wants to take with their work. Writing—and finishing—a novel is a great thing in itself, whether or not the book is published, or becomes widely-read or not.”

“I wish my father could be around.”

Source : "Sketches of the Winners", www.nytimes.com. April 6, 2004.

“Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.”

“I want to be accessible to a certain type of person who wants to walk around with their eyes open, or at least is open to the idea of change.”

“I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.”