I suppose, I said, it is one definition of love, the belief in something that only the two of you can see.

If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse.

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.

I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.

My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.