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

…I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they’re lies of character. Sometimes they are lies of writing the most beautiful sentence in the world that has nothing to do with the story.

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.

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

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

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.

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