Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

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

My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.

A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.