Awkwardness is where tension is, and tension is where the story is. It's also where the comedy is, which I'm interested in; when it resolves it tends to resolve toward melancholy, a certain resignation, which I find interesting as well.

It was part of being a girl in the '60s that you were creative.

Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun.

But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.

Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.

Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so much less to go around.

You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.