I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

I want to get to the end and feel that I've done all I could, given the limitations and given the opportunities.

Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.

Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.

I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.

I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There is a myth that writers are bohemian and do what they like in their own way. Real writers are the most organized people on the planet. You have to be. You’re doing the work and running your own business as well. It’s an incredibly organized state. [Also reading]…one of the things reading does do is discipline your mind. There are no writers who are not readers.