I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.

No emotion is the final one.

Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.

We're in a strange situation where people either don't read at all or they read a lot. There's a huge gap in between. That's something that would be good to bridge so it doesn't have to be one thing or the other. Books could be part of life in a more relaxed way. I'd like to see that.

Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.