Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.

Home is where your books are.

it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not yet exist, they must also create their audience. Sometimes the audience is not yet ready. Sometimes it has yet to be born.

As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.