People Don't Make Changes Because Things Are

The Sound Of Words In A Novel Is A Pretty Amazing Thing, And I Am Concerned With The Sound Of Every Word I Write.

What Distinguished My Life From My Brother's Is That My Mother Didn't Like Me. When I Became A Woman, I Seemed To Repel Her.

I Am Not Aware Of Anything Below My Neck. I Live Completely In My Head.

I Would Pretend When I Was A Child That I Was Charlotte Brontë, Because I'd Read Jane Eyre When I Was Ten And, Although I Didn't Understand It, I Loved The Idea That This Woman Had Written A Book. I Wanted To Be Her.

When I Start To Write Something, I Suppose I Want It To Change Me, To Make Me Into Something Not Myself.