In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.

We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution.

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.

One reason writers write is out of revenge.

Advances in technology neither impede nor augment literature.