I was like a social worker for lepers. My clients had a chunk of their body they wanted to give away; for a price I was there to receive it.
Tama JanowitzThe novel is never really in the first draft. The novel really happens in the revisions.
Tama JanowitzOn bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.
Tama Janowitz