If you aren't aware of the reader, you're working in a vacuum.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

You think you have some stable talent which will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will.

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.

My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's going on, and you go back and bring it up to that point.

Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.