Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.

I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.

Stella Duffy is a writer who never lets you down.

Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.

You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, "I'm a writer," it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.