My guess is that she is uncomfortable in such an intransigent world but is unable to live accordingly to her own desire.

Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.