On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them.

It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing discipline, to realize something I always knew was simmering underneath.

People are depressed for many reasons, one of which I think is how we have been taught to react to trauma, to stress.

The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable.

When I get too worked up about things I have always escaped into catatonia.

One of my moments of coming to writing, of needing to write to attempt to create myself, to attempt to absolve and understand my past passivity, came when a girl I loved very much, who I had been estranged from for some time, killed herself.

I think that writing and publishing are different. I think I will always write; I might not always publish. The idea of not publishing is wonderful!