I have never sought the reason why I write.
We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.
The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.
Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.