I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction.

My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you.

Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.

The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.

The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it.

I haven't any formal schedule, but I love to write in the morning, before breakfast. Sometimes the writing goes so smoothly that I don't take a break for many hours - and consequently have breakfast at two or three in the afternoon on good days.

I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau.