A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.

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

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

The whole process of writing is a setting at a distance. That is the value of it - to the writer, and to the people who read the results of this process, which takes the raw, the individual, the uncriticized, the unexamined, into the realm of the general.

A story is how we construct our experiences.

Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.