A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job.

Every time I end a book, I look down at myself.

It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.

That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.

There's a difference between bravery and rash stupidity.

I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about writing.

I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.