Most of the Womens Libbers I knew really didnt want to have a piece of the mens pie. They thought that pie was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didnt even want a slice of.

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

I didn't intend to become a short-story writer. I became one because I finished a couple of short stories and realized that's what I wanted to do and could do with children and with all the other things in my life.

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.

I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.

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

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.