I'm a natural novelist. I'm interested in the person and the group, and how they mesh. And one of the ways I don't want them to mesh is for the person to be subsumed into the group.

But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses

My great fear is not that I'll run out of ideas. It's that I'll run out of time.

I love to write about sex. You just have to make it idiosyncratic. You have to have a strong comprehension of your characters, and write it from their point of view. It's really fun. It's not erotic.

Americans took a great deal too much credit for creating wealth, when most of the time they had really just been living off natural bounty unprecedented in the history of the world.

it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.

People with good intentions never give up!