Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

The novel is rescued life.

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.

First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.