The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.

The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.

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.

For years I lived rather medicated and muted - I did not possess language to describe my vague feelings of unhappiness, to politicize it, to attempt to transcend it.

I am worthy of being read. I mean, one has to be convinced of one's genius.

I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed.

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.