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- I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all…
- Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.
- I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more…
- I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative…
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look…
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology…
- If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships…
- If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental…
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one:…
- Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they…
- Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.
- I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.
- Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage…
- I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a…
- Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in,…
- No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.
- I myself have 12 hats, and each one represents a different personality. Why just be yourself?
- And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look…
- I think of bad news as a huge bird, with the wings of a crow and the face of my Grade Four school teacher, sparse…
- Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.
- I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that to…
- Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.
- But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on…
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