It's Better To Be Kind Than To

All These People Keep Waxing Sentimental About How Fabulously Well I Am Doing As A Mother, How Competent I Am, But I Feel Inside Like When You're First Learning To Put Nail Polish On Your Right Hand With Your Left. You Can Do It, But It Doesn't Look All That Great Around The Cuticles.

I Don't Think You Have Time To Waste Not Writing Because You Are Afraid You Won't Be Good At It.

Novels Ought To Have Hope; At Least, American Novels Ought To Have Hope. French Novels Don't Need To. We Mostly Win Wars, They Lose Them. Of Course, They Did Hide More Jews Than Many Other Countries, And This Is A Form Of Winning.

It Is A Violation Of Trust To Use Your Kids As Caulking For The Cracks In You.

Very Few Writers Really Know What They Are Doing Until They Have Done It.