You can't say, "I'm too busy writing to be political." You are one person.

I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, give them better books.

It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.

Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.

I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of life. Maybe writing wouldn't have any rewards. Maybe the salvation I would gain through work would only be emotional and intellectual. Wouldn't that be enough, to be a waitress who found an hour or two hidden in every day to write?

Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame

I will write my way into another life.