Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

Recently, the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke talked about the ways the lives of human beings will be changed in the next century. At least half of them I didn't understand at all, though I'm sure that kids today would know exactly what he meant. I'm somewhere in the past. I do think, however, that our brains have been damaged by technology. I meet kids who don't seem to be capable of reading a long sentence, much less a long book.

The older I get the more secrets I have, never to be revealed and this, I know, is a common condition of people my age. and why all this emphasis on kissing and telling? Kisses are the least of it.

I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record.

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.

I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.

I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.