If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.

Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.

I have a great ability to improvise verbally and I am very funny on a dime.

Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.

I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.

I knew a book of mine was finished when I was in intensive care.

writing is about doing something very close to the bone. It's about shocking yourself. When I write, I like to make myself cry, laugh - I like to give myself an experience. I see a lot of writing out there that's very safe. But if you're not scaring yourself, why would you think that you'd be scaring anybody else? If you're not coming to a revelation about your place in the universe, why would you think anyone else would?