When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself.

You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue.

Don’t lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. And that is the stubbornness in me: I do not want to be someone’s little home.

I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

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.

It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is.