To be one woman truly wholly is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.

To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.

Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.

Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so illuminated that I'm able to see where to go. I write between these illuminations.

I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.

In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves.

All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one stone at a time, underneath a full moon while the fingers bleed.

Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.

If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.

I have a great ability to improvise verbally and I am very funny on a dime.

Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.

Eons ago, the creative genius of God foresaw that it would take the shattered pieces of my ‘yesterday’ to construct the sturdy portal to my ‘tomorrow.

Set a goal to achieve something that's so big so exhilarating that excites you & scares you at the same time.

I have come to realise that the most critical of the social media accounts are the least verbal in real life and I can assure you that most social media trolls have no physical troll land to dwell.

In ethics of life, the gender that are much discussed, are favourites.

We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.

It becomes very obvious, by reading a dog, how stable or unstable his human companion is. Our dogs are our mirrors.

The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.

If you worry, you die. If you don't worry, you also die. So why worry?

With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.

The problem with the race to the bottom is that you might win