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.

The wrong word is like a lie jammed inside the story.

Write from what you know into what you don't know.

I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.

If you're old and you're healthy and you're active - I don't mean you have to be politically active - if you remain interested in other people and the world, then you live as well as your health will allow.

Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language.