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Top 15 Jean Hanff Korelitz Quotes (2024 Update)

Jean Hanff Korelitz Quote: “Pick the wrong person and it doesn’t matter how much you want to fix your marriage. It won’t work.”

1. “Pick the wrong person and it doesn’t matter how much you want to fix your marriage. It won’t work.”

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Jean Hanff Korelitz Quote: “If a woman chose the wrong person, he was always going to be the wrong person: that was all. The most capable therapist in the world wouldn’t be able to do much more than negotiate the treaty.”

2. “If a woman chose the wrong person, he was always going to be the wrong person: that was all. The most capable therapist in the world wouldn’t be able to do much more than negotiate the treaty.”

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Jean Hanff Korelitz Quote: “You’re only as successful as the last book you published, and you’re only as good as the next book you’re writing. So shut up and write.”

3. “You’re only as successful as the last book you published, and you’re only as good as the next book you’re writing. So shut up and write.”

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Jean Hanff Korelitz Quote: “The women were responsible for everything. They were guilty of crimes, real and illusory. They had not thought hard enough, tried hard enough, asked enough of themselves. It was as if the plane had fallen from the sky for the sole reason that they had stopped flapping their arms.”

4. “The women were responsible for everything. They were guilty of crimes, real and illusory. They had not thought hard enough, tried hard enough, asked enough of themselves. It was as if the plane had fallen from the sky for the sole reason that they had stopped flapping their arms.”

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Jean Hanff Korelitz Quote: “People don’t realize you can’t copyright a plot,” Alessandro said finally. “You can’t even copyright a title, and that would be a lot easier to make an argument about.”

5. “People don’t realize you can’t copyright a plot,” Alessandro said finally. “You can’t even copyright a title, and that would be a lot easier to make an argument about.”

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Jean Hanff Korelitz Quote: “And one day she said to me, ‘For the rest of my life, it’s the first thing they’ll say about me when I leave the room.’ And I remember thinking: Yes that’s true, it will be. But we can’t really do anything about what they say when we leave the room. We’ll never be able to control that. And we shouldn’t try. Our job is just to... well, be in the room while we’re there, and try not to think too much about where we’re not. Whatever room we happen to be in, just, be there.”

6. “And one day she said to me, ‘For the rest of my life, it’s the first thing they’ll say about me when I leave the room.’ And I remember thinking: Yes that’s true, it will be. But we can’t really do anything about what they say when we leave the room. We’ll never be able to control that. And we shouldn’t try. Our job is just to... well, be in the room while we’re there, and try not to think too much about where we’re not. Whatever room we happen to be in, just, be there.”

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Jean Hanff Korelitz Quote: “I actually think there are lots of good matches for each person, and they cross our paths all the time, but we’re so wedded to the idea of love at first sight that we can miss the really great people who don’t come with a thunderbolt attached.”

7. “I actually think there are lots of good matches for each person, and they cross our paths all the time, but we’re so wedded to the idea of love at first sight that we can miss the really great people who don’t come with a thunderbolt attached.”

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Jean Hanff Korelitz Quote: “It was all he could do not to laugh, the lives of the vast majority of authors being far more private than they likely wished. Maybe Stephen King or John Grisham got approached in the supermarket by a quavering person extending pen and paper, but for most writers, even reliably published and actually self-supporting writers, the privacy was thunderous.”

8. “It was all he could do not to laugh, the lives of the vast majority of authors being far more private than they likely wished. Maybe Stephen King or John Grisham got approached in the supermarket by a quavering person extending pen and paper, but for most writers, even reliably published and actually self-supporting writers, the privacy was thunderous.”

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Jean Hanff Korelitz Quote: “Once you were in possession of an actual idea, you owed it a debt for having chosen you, and not some other writer, and you paid that debt by getting down to work, not just as a journeyman fabricator of sentences but as an unshrinking artist ready to make painful, time-consuming, even self-flagellating mistakes.”

9. “Once you were in possession of an actual idea, you owed it a debt for having chosen you, and not some other writer, and you paid that debt by getting down to work, not just as a journeyman fabricator of sentences but as an unshrinking artist ready to make painful, time-consuming, even self-flagellating mistakes.”

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Jean Hanff Korelitz Quote: “Anyone could be an idiot or a jerk, separately, but the combination of ignorance and meanspiritedness – that was special.”

10. “Anyone could be an idiot or a jerk, separately, but the combination of ignorance and meanspiritedness – that was special.”

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Jean Hanff Korelitz Quote: “Midway upon the journey of our life, he heard himself think, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost.”

11. “Midway upon the journey of our life, he heard himself think, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost.”

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Jean Hanff Korelitz Quote: “Well, there is narcissism in all of us, of course. I mean, we are the protagonists of our own lives, so naturally it feels like we’re at the wheel. But we’re not at the wheel. That just happens to be where the window is located.”

12. “Well, there is narcissism in all of us, of course. I mean, we are the protagonists of our own lives, so naturally it feels like we’re at the wheel. But we’re not at the wheel. That just happens to be where the window is located.”

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Jean Hanff Korelitz Quote: “I’ve learned so much about writers. You’re a strange kind of beast, aren’t you, with your petty feuds and your fifty shades of narcissism? You act like words don’t belong to everyone. You act like stories don’t have real people attached to them. It’s hurtful, Jake.”

13. “I’ve learned so much about writers. You’re a strange kind of beast, aren’t you, with your petty feuds and your fifty shades of narcissism? You act like words don’t belong to everyone. You act like stories don’t have real people attached to them. It’s hurtful, Jake.”

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Jean Hanff Korelitz Quote: “You know, wanting what you have is supposedly the secret of happiness.”

14. “You know, wanting what you have is supposedly the secret of happiness.”

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Jean Hanff Korelitz Quote: “I know it’s supposed to take a village to raise our children, but why does ours have so many village idiots?”

15. “I know it’s supposed to take a village to raise our children, but why does ours have so many village idiots?”

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Jean Hanff Korelitz Quote: “Rochelle went silent again. It was interesting, I thought. I resolved to be more like this, myself: not to speak until I was ready. Obviously, people waited for you.”

16. “Rochelle went silent again. It was interesting, I thought. I resolved to be more like this, myself: not to speak until I was ready. Obviously, people waited for you.”

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Jean Hanff Korelitz Quote: “That road, as it turned out, would be even lonelier than she had reason to fear.”

17. “That road, as it turned out, would be even lonelier than she had reason to fear.”

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

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