We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.

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.

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.

People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.

Modern morality is all about perception.

The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.