Heterosexuality - whichever gender you are - says that the other gender is very important to you.

[Cancer] didn't make me more intense about not working more and just having fun more. It didn't do that either. 

The crows that are predatory are something you have to deal with. For me, they also become associated with cancer cells.

I'm always resisting [my muse]. I'm resisting her power.

"Time" does not mean "occasion."

I think that's what, to me, also talks about the silences in my work - as a woman, a woman writer, when you say, "no" or you have to say, "no" so often to the writing occasion, those occasions don't really come back.

According to [Maxine Hong] Kingston, the prose writer is "a workhorse."