If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.

No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force and presence, startles you, takes you by surprise, as would a ghost suddenly appearing in the room wearing familiar perfume and boots.

Plots are for dead people.

When you were six you thought mistress meant to put your shoes on the wrong feet. Now you are older and know it can mean many things, but essentially it means to put your shoes on the wrong feet.

The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing.

When she packed up to leave, she knew that she was saying goodbye to something important, which was not that bad, in a way, because it meant that at least you had said hello to it to begin with.