Love is serene and calm

we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!

No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.