Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror. Anne Roiphe More Quotes by Anne Roiphe More Quotes From Anne Roiphe It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world. Anne Roiphe friendship people moving Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around. Anne Roiphe women way religion I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough. Anne Roiphe twelve different thinking It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had been in World War II, I might have been writing about D-Day over and over again. Anne Roiphe d-day writing war My mother had died when I wrote my first book. I was twenty-seven, so it was right at the beginning of my writing life. I don't know if she had lived, if I would have done it, certainly not quite like I did. But, you can't rethink it. You wrote what you wrote, it meant something to other people, and that's your good. Anne Roiphe mother writing book I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it. Anne Roiphe modern use thinking We have to recognize that it is a very, very painful thing for people to be exposed to their social community, to be exposed in the world, as not what they would have wanted to be seen as. This is very painful and difficult for people. Anne Roiphe community people world I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know what's really going on. Anne Roiphe feels world needs I don't really think it comes as a shock to every writer if somebody in their family is mad at them. Yes, it's very upsetting. But it's inherent in the process of trying to make sense of one's life, which is what I think is perhaps at the bottom of writing at all. Anne Roiphe mad writing thinking However, there probably is a slight connection between the high-wire, super sensitivity, open to everything and too much, and slightly fragile soul of the artist and the need to self-medicate, which can lead to bad trouble either in drugs, or alcohol. So it's not that there's no connection, it's just that we can't make too much of it because it isn't the addiction that's the issue, it's the fragility of some people who do artistic work, who end up in rehab somewhere or other. Anne Roiphe issues artist self
