Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.
A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.
Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, of charity, of patronizing kindness. It is a matter of intense self-interest.
I am shamelessly biased about the people in my life, and it makes sense to me that other people are the same.
The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to all the people they have known.
Competing in show jumping is a school of life. And it's one of the few Olympic sports where men and women are equal.
All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.
I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.
I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it.
No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.
To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.
Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.
Life isn't a 24/7 merry go round. If it were, you wouldn't get the 7 hours of sleep necessary to keep you fit and sane.
I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.
I had a husband who stayed with me, and small children, and I had no choice but to pull myself together and rebuild a different kind of life. There was no other choice.
I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started.
Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.
