Lists are a form of power.

I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the second world war.

It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.