Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.