She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.

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

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

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

a writer is a foreign country

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.