Time is how you spend your love..

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….

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..

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

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

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

But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanut….

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

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 ….

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

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

The past is always tense, the future perfect..

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

Don't confuse honours with achievement..

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..

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

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….

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?.