Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership . . . these are scientific values we can point to.

I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.