Romanticizing The Act Of Writing Or Any

I Think It Is A Good Thing To Have Woman Friends At Every Stage Of Life. We Confide In Each Other, We Support Each Other, We Understand Each Other Most Of The Time. Of Course, Sometimes We Are Competitive Or Angry Or Distant, Too. But I Do Think It Is Important Not To Let The Main Friendships Slip Away In The Sweep Of The Days.

Romanticizing The Act Of Writing Or Any Other Art Is Not Very Helpful To The Artist Or The Art. It's Much Better If One Simply Does.

My Mother Had Died When I Wrote My First Book. I Was Twenty-seven, So It Was Right At The Beginning Of My Writing Life. I Don't Know If She Had Lived, If I Would Have Done It, Certainly Not Quite Like I Did. But, You Can't Rethink It. You Wrote What You Wrote, It Meant Something To Other People, And That's Your Good.

There Is Cruelty In Divorce. There Is Cruelty In Forced Or Unfortunate Marriage. We Will Continue To Cry At Weddings Because We Know How Bittersweet, How Fragile Is The Truth. We Will Always Need Legal Divorce Just As An Emergency Escape Hatch Is Crucial In Every Submarine. No Sense, However, In Denying That After Every Divorce Someone Will Be Running Like A Cat, Tin Cans Tied To Its Tail: Spooked And Slowed Down.

Sometimes What We Call Love Is Just A Settling Of Old Scores, Or A Seeking Of Forbidden Pain, Or A Circuitous Path To The Kingdom Of Cruelty, Or She May Simply Have Confused Lack Of Capital With Heroism While Searching For Rescue Without Knowing From What.