Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

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I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are.

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Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

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Take notes. Everything is copy.

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I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up.

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The hardest thing about writing is writing.

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I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.

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You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

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I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.

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The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.

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