Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

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

If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

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

Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.