Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people..

Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts..

Don't confuse honours with achievement..

You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair..

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories..

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you..

The world is now multicultural the same way the world is round. It's not a selling point, it's not a 'quirky' feature, it's not a cynical marketing p….

The end is simply the beginning of an even longer story..

Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy..

In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution..

A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when ….

Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?.

I always remind myself that [ Jean-Paul] Sartre and [Simone] de Beauvoir didn't have children. And when you don't have children, it might be easier t….

The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer..

The past is always tense, the future perfect..

Time is how you spend your love..

She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead..

I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for..

Don't live in a way that makes you feel dead..

You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence..

The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free..