You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the ­internet.

Time is how you spend your love.

First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.

I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I'm not necessarily proud to be female. I am not even proud to be human — I only love to be so.

You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me.

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do not write what they want, they write what they can.