You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.

Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.

Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other than utter failure.

Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that.

What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.