I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.

Condemned and executioner with aren't coupled in a primitive rite.

She could not mourn. She could no longer weep grasping the essence of annihilation, she wished only to cease, to be no more, as if sunk in some profound sleep devoid of wakening.

We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.