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

The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.

I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.

When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.

Anger is really disappointed hope.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.