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

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

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

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

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

The past is always tense, the future perfect..

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

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..

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 ….

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

Time is how you spend your love..

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

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 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….

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

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

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

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you l….

It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties..

Don't confuse honours with achievement..