When I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well. I felt much more useful than I'd ever felt before.

I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

That said, I've never thought the fact that I'm a woman was important to my work.

Last year's troubles, They shine up so prettily, They gleam with a lustre they don't have today.

I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.