The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850.

Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.

We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways.

If sex is a war, I am a conscientious objector: I will not play.

Like species, couples die out or evolve.

I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write much at all - no more than any other child who read a lot of books. I began to write fiction and poetry when I first had a room that was truly my own with a door that shut and some measure, however fragile, of privacy.

Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.