I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.

I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

No one else can hold your hand or take this voyage of the soul for you.