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

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.

An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the good from the bad– including your own bad.

Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.