My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.

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.

If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.

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

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

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