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- If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his…
- Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been…
- If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.
- When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of…
- Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.
- When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love…
- You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know.
- It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.
- The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks…
- Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.
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