The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

I was always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your three books and read them and it would still be only five o'clock. The library didn't shut till half past, but you couldn't change the books till the next day.

People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.

Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.

As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.