I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.

You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.

Food doesn't exist, but can only be invented. And reinvented.

I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come. Certain subjects just need time, as I've learned over and over again. You've got to wait before you write about them.

The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine.

In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved

If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a lock when he touched me, I lose everything.