If you look at most womens writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writers description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. Theyre looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.

Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.

You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.

Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.

To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.

A funny line can never exist on its own. It needs to be surrounded by mood and circumstances.

Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.