Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.

Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.

The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built from emotionally colored memories.

Memory changes as a person matures.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.