Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.
it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.
If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .
How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century.
Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.