I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative writing, I don't ha….

The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable..

Patriarchy is having the power to name..

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness..

I am curious to see what books will emerge from all this writing online that's the result of those who grew up pouring their feelings out on Livejour….

I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed..

The concept of "girl-on-girl crime" is perplexing to me, and it happens in many ways. There are those, who refuse to identify with women as a group, ….

People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in the menta….

I think that writing and publishing are different. I think I will always write; I might not always publish. The idea of not publishing is wonderful!.

I think the mad wives and mistresses are my hysterics - even the fictionalized ones. I want to trace how they were silenced, I want to find for them ….

I'm exposing faultlines, dealing especially with rhetoric. Showing that heterosexuality is a disease, or at least its inheritance..

For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that consisted of biographical anecd….

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is….

I am worthy of being read. I mean, one has to be convinced of one's genius..

I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if the main char….

My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it..

All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work..

If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives..

When I get too worked up about things I have always escaped into catatonia..

With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is see….

It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing discipline, to realize somet….