How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

Modern morality is all about perception.

Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.

I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.

A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal.

The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesnt want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.