Every Time I Write A Book, I've

If Love Is What Is Held To Make Us Immortal, Hatred Is The Reverse.

People Are Least Aware Of Others When Demonstrating Their Own Power Over Them.

There Is A Slovenly Disrespect For Truth And Reality That Has Infected And Cross-infected The Arts; The Values Of Entertainment Are Relentlessly In The Ascendant, To The Extent That It Becomes Virtually Impossible To Write A Naturalistic Fictional Sentence Without Feeling That The Fabric Of That Sentence Is Already Compromised.

I Remain Fascinated By Where You Go As A Woman Once You Are A Mother, And If You Ever Come Back.

I Have No Sense Of A Model Or Predecessor When I Write A Memoir: For Me, The Form Exists As A Method Of Processing Material That Retains Too Many Connections To Life To Be Approached Strictly And Aesthetically. A Memoir Is A Risk, A One-off, A Bastard Child.