Never be ashamed of your subject, and of your passion for your subject.
Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.
Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.
I'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that.
And Iām drawn to failure. I often write about it, and Iām sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel Iām contending with it constantly in my own life.
Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know.