the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.

biographies are a little like marriages: You only have room in your life for one or two.

the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.

Perhaps that is what love is -- the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.

The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.

One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.

I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely.