Sitting down with younger women writers and saying, "This is what I do and you can do this" is hugely important.

I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough.

No one likes kids. We say we do, and we take pictures of pregnant women for People Magazine, but really they're commodities - we hate them around, we hate them on airplanes, we consider them a grand imposition and almost a style choice.

It's a privilege to have kids and not live your life in solitude. But we live in a child-hating culture.

I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it would drive me insane.

I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.

In America I think it's much more full of disruption culturally; it's much more mysterious how we inherit culture here. We grab it where we can find it - we're insatiable - and there can be a sense here that it's not available to you as readily as it is in other cultures.