The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness.

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

How difficult it was for a woman, once she was named by doctors, to become a writer, because many aspects of her behavior that are accepted in the genius or creative man are regarded as dangerous in the woman.

I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative writing, I don't have an MFA, or a PhD, I tend to approach it just through my own practice.

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

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.