Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us.

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.

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.

Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

I see, in women friends, a really dangerous phenomenon where it seems they reach a certain age and become invisible.

A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.

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