Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet?

I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices.

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

Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet?

I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.

Art's too long and life's too short.

You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.