If you want to do things, do things.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.

In the park I met other women and I started to get interested in their lives. I developed a lot of pressure to talk about women's lives, and children's lives, too. Children interest me tremendously.

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

To be modest means that you have something to be modest about.