I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.
If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself into your dreams.
I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway. Everybody's dreaming and trying to put down their dreams in the way that their hand knows best. I feel as much a unity , as much comradeship , with painters as I do writers.
We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.
Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.
When you're stuck on something creatively, you can't solve a problem, you go to a coffee shop.
My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I am merely being witty.
I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.
As women, we cannot afford to neglect ourselves.