There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please, with none to forbid or criticise.

As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

It's a terrible poison, writing.

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