Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.
Boxing has become America’s tragic theater.
Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.
I am what would be called a ‘mainstream feminist,’ not a radical feminist.
I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.
Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.
One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.
No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.
My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
Most people who are writers go through periods when they can’t write.
Love is an indescribable sensation – perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude.
Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.
It’s not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.
If I’m writing, I’ll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.
I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.
I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.
I have read on a Kindle. But the Kindle we had only worked for about eight months then it stopped working. You don’t have to get books repaired.
My self is all to me. I don’t have any need of you.
These are the moments for which we live.
Like a flame is real enough, isn’t it, while it’s burning?-even if there’s a time it goes out?