... I'd always rather be with people who loved me too little rather than with people who loved me too much.

The late evening is the time of times. Then with that unearthly beauty before one it is not hard to realise how far one has to go. To write something that will be worthy of that rising moon, that pale light.

I'm a writer first and a woman after.

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.

The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.

Children are unaccountable little creatures.

To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.