It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words.

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

I seldom read on beaches or in gardens. You can't read by two lights at once, the light of day and the light of the book. You should read by electric light, the room in shadow, and only the page lit up.

We, her children, are heroic, dersperate.