Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world.

(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)

The novel leads you places that you never could have gotten to otherwise.

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.