Advances in technology neither impede nor augment literature.

It isn't the instrument that influences High-Minded or Low-Minded; it's the quality of Mind itself.

Women who write with an overriding consciousness that they write as women are engaged not in aspiration toward writing, but chiefly in a politics of sex.

Death persecutes before it executes.

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.