Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

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I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.

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I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

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To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

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I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.

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My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

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I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

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My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.

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There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

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