What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

My Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have. I hesitate to go out. If you opened the little gate, I would not hop away—but oh how I sing in my gold cage.

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.