I am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like a terrible housewife, or a sick person.

I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon.

My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.

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.

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 an escape route.

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

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

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!

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

I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis.

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

The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.

The majority of the time with two strikes I'll choke up on the bat a little bit to try to stay as short as possible. It doesn't always work out like that, but that's the goal.

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

Lets be honest, L.A. is not a bad place to live. There are some crazy people there, but I tend to get on with them!

I'm a liar. I'll rip your mind up. I'll burn your soul, I'll turn you in to me.

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.

Novels allow me to create a whole world.

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.

I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.