The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.

Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.

Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trap—I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you—because you know how to perform them—have no choice, either. What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too. If abortion was legal, a woman would have a choice—and so would you. You could feel free not to do it because someone else would. But the way it is, you're trapped. Women are trapped. Women are victims, and so are you.

I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.

When writing a novel, I'm not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don't know what it is.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.