She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.

Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.

I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It’s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the circus, I’m joining the circus. Although I’m happily married, I spent a great deal of time mentally living with incompatible husbands.

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.

I'm falling into disrepair