If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.

I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.

I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.

Somewhere inside we do know everything about ourselves. There is no real forgetting. Perhaps we know somewhere, too, about all there is to come.

Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her.