They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.

I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of them.

If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as a woman first? Look out. Whoever asks this hates and fears both writing and women.

for me the novel is a social vehicle, it reflects society.

If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.

A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.