“Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.”

“No serious student of the Bible in English can neglect the Revised Version without loss.”

“It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence—no first draft. I can’t write five words but that I change seven.”

“Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.”

“Every woman needs a daughter to tell her stories to.”

“Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.”

“Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.”

“It has been said, "History is written by the victors." I take this to mean we can make ourselves victorious by writing, and then rewriting our own stories. In a country and culture so dominated by media, by the manipulation of words and stories, telling the tales of people whose stories historically have not been told is a radical act and I believe an act that can change the world and help rewrite history.”

“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”

“How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world”