You know every cell in our bodies is completely renewed every seven years, so how can we talk about being the same person? We're absolutely not.

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.

Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.

It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes.

I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.