Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks.

I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality.

That desire to reach further is also where I ended my memoir, in 1994 in California, perhaps ironically, looking out to the Pacific and back to Asia, toward the not-yet-written.

I'm nomadic. Even when I'm a visiting professor here at the City University of Hong Kong, in this campus flat, I'm constantly getting up, sitting down, picking this or that up. You can't do that and be a writer. You need to be able to sit still.

After Fifty Shades of Grey, I think my writing is pretty tame, isn't it?

I was driven, as have been many writers, both by a repulsion of the childhood home's narrow confines and a desire to reach further, to keep desiring more of a future not yet imagined and not yet written down.

I guess my writing through time has focused on a number of dimensions that reflect separately on the meaning and social place of the female body.