First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.

If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.

We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.

My nutritionist read my pathology report and said, "There's only one way you can beat your cancer." "What's that?" "You have to find out what caused it.

I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

Real change is slow, hard, and imperceptible.

Man hurts man, time and time again. As we drown in the wake of our power, somebody tell me why?

What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait

Love rules the camp, the court, the grove - for love is Heaven, and Heaven is love.

And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it.

I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

If you build it, he will come.

God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.

If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.