No emotion is the final one.

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.

We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.

As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.

I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all.

There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name.

Language is a finding place, not a hiding place.