Margaret Atwood
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. 
A word after a word after a word is power.
It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography — but if you write your biography, it's equally assumed you're lying your head off.
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.