Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.

The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.

The owner of Mojo's was a suicide blonde, dyed by her own hand.

I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.

Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.