I'm just too lazy. I wish I could be someone that has wild affairs - all of my favorite nonfiction novels are about these wild affairs and postmarital agonistes - but to be honest, I'm someone that doesn't deal well with instability.

I think the online space can be a free space, in that we are not reliant online on the publishing industry or readers who just don't get it.

I think genius can have a lot to do with nerve. And permission.

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize - too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries."

I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature.

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.