Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.

That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.

I look forward and see myself look back.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.

Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.

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