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I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.

It’s a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else’s life.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

I’ve certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

I’m writing a new book right now that is like an erotica manifesto.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.