Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

It's a matter of whether you see the self as fundamentally in relationship to other selves or not - whether you see the boundary between self and the world as relatively permeable, which makes you "interdependent" (collectivist) in outlook, or relatively impermeable, which makes you "independent" (individualistic).

There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.