Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.

Every one of us is prone to implicit sexual prejudices, including women.

Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.

Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.

No matter how brilliant or accomplished they are, there is something emasculating for men in being pitted against a woman. It is even more true in creative fields already considered to be "squishy" and feminine, and it's a big problem because great women have been left off the record.