I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.

And that's the insult of it, how always it comes back to a woman being a "good" mother in the world's eyes or a "bad" mother, how everything in a woman's life is funneled through her body between her legs.

I love insult, it's always honest.

Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories - something like ghosts in the psychological sense.

The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery.