The best revenge is living well without you.

After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be my grandmother.

You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.

The best revenge is living well without you.

I turn down invitations to do things for money. I have almost no interest in making money. Actually, I've acquired a fair amount of money that I will never live to spend. So earning money, in a way, depresses me, because I feel it's just piling up.

My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.

Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know.