I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.

If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.

Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.

More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are in a different moment. We are now reading electronic books or whatever else, but people are still reading, and people still need stories.

Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction

I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.