in writing, sex doesn't matter; it's the writing that matters.

Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.

Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.