Try to be accurate about stuff.

I think it’s very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.

Here we go again. Always a few drinks, but sometimes even sober, we play the unhappiness game; endlessly round and round. Ding dong. Tighter and tighter. On and on. Push me pull you. Come here and i'll tell you how much i hate you. Hang on a minute while i leave you. All the while we know we are missing the point, whatever the point used to be.

Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.

People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going to be, and you're looking for some way forward, fiction is a great friend.

I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find.

I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.