People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.

There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the blood, the family. And how they live, the money of it.

My job is to get people to write something truthful, something about truth and beauty - wherever they are - and to understand how literature is made. And then if they become great writers, that's great, and probably has nothing to do with me.

Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.

Just when I most needed important conversation, a sniff of the man-wide world, that is, at least one brainy companion who could translate my friendly language into his tongue of undying carnal love, I was forced to lounge in our neighborhood park, surrounded by children.

Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.