All my characters have playlists.
Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone.
Our greatest fear is that we will lose the love in our life. . . that we will be abandoned, left alone, bereaved, misunderstood, deprived, hated and rejected. . . . but we can never be OUT OF LOVE. We are love and if our minds separate ourselves from who we really are it is a painful delusion. Ego personalities, including our own, might separate ourselves from love but love never dies because it is what we are made of.
Motherhood: the days are long, the years are short.
There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality.
[On writer George Moore:]. . . I grew curious about Moore. Yet when at the rehearsal of 'Countess Cathleen' in some dark by-way of London, I was told he was present, I cannot recall any form, only an irritation in the dusty atmosphere.
in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore.
It matters little who first arrives at an idea, rather what is significant is how far that idea can go
I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there.
The first step is to fill your life with positive faith that will help you through anything. The second step is to start where you are.
Anesthesia is quite remarkable. Its lost time. And you wake up kind of refreshed.