In 1976: I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everyone speaks. Once the grammar has been learned, it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.
In 1981: I wanted to make sense of my childhood experience. Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood. So I go over it again and again.
[on her relationship with Alan Sharpe] He showed up for Rudi's birth, but then went downstairs saying he was going to get a book out of the car and never came back.