To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.

I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

Can true function arise from basic dysfunction?

There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness. You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities. Nobody else in the world can do it, or ever could do it, or ever will be able to do it again.