I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.

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 don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

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 remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.

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.

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.