I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in my head.

I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.

Life has a truth to it, and it's complicated - it's love and it's hatred.

A psychiatrist once asked me to draw a picture of my family. This is when I was a member of a family of four. I drew the three other people in the family first, bodies and heads. And then, last, I began to draw myself - but gave up.

I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.