Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite...
Words are like wild birds - they will come when they wish, not when they are bidden.
Popular! In America, what else matters?
My bridal gown. So beautiful in design but it was never sewed. So lovely, ivory lace, ivory silk, sheer lace back, pleated bodice and flared skirt never sewed.My veil, my train.(So foolish the bridal...
Like a turnip such a head could be blown away very easily. For where a man was weak, a woman has unmanned him. It would be a mercy to blow such a man away.
In marriage, the most intense conversations are often with oneself.
I never change, I simply become more myself.
How alone this was going to be.
First marriage, and nothing so sweet! You don’t know it at the time.
I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.
Love is not enough to keep us from harm.
He told Neal he was in poor condition these days but he swam better than Neal, who’d gained ten or fifteen pounds since his marriage, and Enid, falling behind the men, wondered how it felt to have inh...
While madness in individuals is relatively rare, it is virtually a prerequisite for a certain sort of political leader.
I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the...
If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
لا يمكنني التورط مع رجل لا يهمه أمري وأمر طفلتي وحياتنا معًا، أكثر من اهتمامه بغريب ... لا يمكنني التورط مع رجل لا يهمه إن عاش أو مات! يرمي بحياته مثل الزهر وكأن لا قيمة لها
Love you in that cheerleader’s costume. Last Friday. You didn’t see me I guess. But I was there.
In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out.
I believe in uttering the truth, even if it hurts. Particularly if it hurts.