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

They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.

You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.

Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."

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

Keeping a journal implies hope.

Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid... They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild - and what happened? The men wilted.