I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.
When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.
So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it.
People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.
I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.
I have these plants in my house that are dying, so having a robot butler to water them when I'm away would be pretty handy.
When I was a teenager, I was really into hair; I dyed it different colours and had loads of haircuts. I shaved my head when I was 17 - it was pretty radical!
Decline is also a form of voluptuousness, just like growth. Autumn is just as sensual as springtime. There is as much greatness in dying as in procreation.
I think that dying is the easy part of life; for in waking each day and living in every moment, therein lies the challenge
I have a film called 'A Lonely Place For Dying,' which is the most watched film on the Internet, over 3 million hits, more than any of Hollywood's films.
In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.
A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.
I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)
Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?
If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
For me, being a woman suits what I want to talk about and what my audience wants to hear. Maybe I'm a dying breed.
The only thing I have never known is true intimacy with a man. I absolutely wanted to discover that before dying.
