Quote

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.

Anita Diament

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anita Diament
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 24
Author
Novelist
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Book
Took
Plates
Never
Months
Publishing
Already
Editors
Advertised
Full
Month
Reviewed
Came
Classic
Fired
Story
Majors
Plate
Didn
Major
Outlets
Stories
Lived
Editor

More quotes by Anita Diament

Image
My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
Anita Diament
Image
One of his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal hope.
Anita Diament
Image
There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
Anita Diament
Image
My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
Anita Diament
Image
The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
Anita Diament
Image
There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
Anita Diament
Image
It was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also kissing your face.
Anita Diament
Image
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.
Anita Diament
Image
I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
Anita Diament
Image
Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative view of history, and such beautiful acting. Like most Americans, I'm a sucker for the accent.
Anita Diament
Image
They sang the words in unison, yet somehow created a web of sounds with their voices. It was like hearing a piece of fabric woven with all the colors of a rainbow. I did not know that such beauty could be formed by the human mouth. I had never heard harmony before.
Anita Diament
Image
Biblical names are hot again.
Anita Diament
Image
I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
Anita Diament
Image
The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
Anita Diament
Image
Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.
Anita Diament
Image
I moved my arms through the water, feeling them float on the surface, watching the waves and wake that followed my gesture. Here was magic, I thought. Here was something holy.
Anita Diament
Image
Mountains are where heaven meets earth.
Anita Diament
Image
If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
Anita Diament
Image
The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
Anita Diament
Image
Egypt loved the lotus becuase it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. Thus can something as insignificant as a name-two syllables, one high, one sweet- summon up the innumerable smiles, tears, sighs and dreams of a human life.
Anita Diament