Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
The facts are always less than what really happened.
They say (she had read somewhere) that no one ever disappears, up in the atmosphere, stratosphere, whatever you call space--atoms infinitely minute, beyond conception of existence, are up there foreve...
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
... what it really was like to live a life determined by the struggle to be free, as desert dwellers' days are determined by the struggle against thirst and those of dwellers amid snow and ice by the...
People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what w...
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.