I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.
If sex is a war, I am a conscientious objector: I will not play.
I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.
History is a game played backwards only.
Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.
I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.