When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life.

There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.

Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.

a writer is a foreign country

It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.

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

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.