I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.

I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.

What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.

It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

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