I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women.

My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.

You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born.

The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.

I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under.

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.