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

A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.

Life is only lived full-time by women with children.

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

Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me.