Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly...spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.- Susan Taylor--Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.

Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.

There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.