The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

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

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.

Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.

It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.

Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.