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.

There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.

He felt changed, but there was no one to tell.

Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.

She was a logical child, as far as children go. She did not understand how such a nice, kind, good God as the one they preyed to, could condemn the whole earth for sinfulness and flood it, or condemn his only Son to a disgusting death on behalf of everyone. This death did not seem to have done much good.

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

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.