I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.

Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.

All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.

If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.

I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.

The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.