Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !

There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.

Images are ... a kind of emotional shorthand.

My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.