No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

I believe that any form of art is a species of exploration and transgression. ... Art by its nature is a transgressive act, and artists must accept being punished for it. The more original and unsettling their art, the more devastating the punishment.

I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist.

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

We come away from the tragedies of [William] Shakespeare with a profound sense of having encountered reality in its most pristine form - yet the art-work is elaborately artificial, the very genre of tragedy in poetry an anti-naturalist perspective.

Sometimes I stumble upon a wonderfully irresistible to me voice, unexpectedly.

I love insult, it's always honest.