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

Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.

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.

No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.

I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out.

You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.