Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.

My love for you tonight is so deep and tender that it seems to be outside myself as well.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

I'm a writer first and a woman after.

There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.

But the more poetry one reads the more one longs to read!