I have an idea for a story, and if the idea is going to work, then one of the characters steps forward, and I hear her voice telling the story. This is what has happened with all the books I've written in the first person.
When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared.
The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.
Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.
My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.
In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.
You always fall down in the direction of where you bend over.
The man on his feet carries off the share of the man sitting down.
The kind man feeds his cat before sitting down to dinner.
He who took the donkey up to the roof should bring it down.
No matter how far down a wrong road you are, turn back.
Chapter One of My Life. I walk down the street. There's a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost. I am helpless. It isn't my fault. It still takes forever to find a way out. Chapter Two. I walk down the same street. There's a deep hole in th...
Take it slow. We want to know what’s ahead before what’s ahead knows we’re here.
A partner to share the ups and downs with. Honor and strength, and knowing you're stronger together than apart
Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.
Life is not a circle. It is a straight line that has ups and downs.
The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined to break down genre barriers. He's done amazing things.
Just calm down and think, sir. Think. Where is your wife?
If we are alone, we become more alone. Life is strange
God hides the fires of hell within paradise.
