Quotes Anita Diament

As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and ...

Biblical names are hot again....

I ended up with a local agent. She found a publisher on the ...

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was...

I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish comm...

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fi...

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, po...

I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be h...

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widel...

I wrote poetry a long time ago, but you can't make any money...

I'm not a literary writer. I didn't go to whatever school it...

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my f...

My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our weddin...

My local independent bookseller has been incredibly supporti...

My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly ...

November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers a...

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. ...

Readers have told me how the mother, daughter, sister relati...

Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a pla...

Shakespeare in Love... such smart writing of an alternative ...

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practic...

The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There...

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from...

The President of the Reform Movement started a literacy proj...

The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her int...