“I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.”

“I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.”

“I was dictating to my mother when I was 5.”

“I'd like to get out of here without having to talk to the producer.”

“I'm a lousy journalist.”

“It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.”

“It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.”

“My abiding theme is separations.”

“My first book took five years to write and I made USD1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made USD3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.”

“The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.”

“Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing.”