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.

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.

By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.

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

Perhaps it does not matter so very much what it is one loves in this world. But love something one must.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.