The novel leads you places that you never could have gotten to otherwise.
Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it.
Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.
Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.
This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.
It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with every draught in the house; people brought it home on their shoes, they breathed it in off their newspapers. There was no way to control it.