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.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

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.

Every time one leaves anywhere, something precious, which ought not to be killed, is left to die.

Better to write twaddle, anything, than nothing at all.

Warm, eager, living life-to be rooted in life-to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.