Not to have an audience is a kind of death.

It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.

Better immersion than to live untouched.

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in our medium, roused to do our best, by every good writer, every fine achievement. Would we want one good writer or fine book less? The sense of writers being pitted against each other is bred primarily by the workings of the commercial marketplace, and by critics lauding one writer at the expense of another while ignoring the existence of nearly all.

Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones.

Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.