That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.

The writer is all alone.

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

The world is always in movement.

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

Writers should provoke disagreement.