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

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

As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.

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

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

All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one stone at a time, underneath a full moon while the fingers bleed.

To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.