Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words.

Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words.

The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living.

I've never been able to force a novel. I always had the sense something being given to me. You can't sit around and wait until inspiration strikes, but neither can you force into being something that isn't there.

Women, as well as men, in all ages and in all places, have danced on the earth, danced the life dance, danced joy, danced grief, danced despair, and danced hope. Literally and metaphorically, by their very lives.

Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young.

If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.