We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.

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

I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.

I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.

Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.

biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.