Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men.

The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

If I am a prolific writer and turn my hand, with what seems to some as indecent haste, from novels to screenplays to stage and radio plays, it is because there is so much to be said, so few of us to say it, and time runs out.

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

You will find that women who are pregnant often don't want to be and women who aren't desperately envy those who are. Labour wards are always full of very punitive people.

Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.