“I'm a writer first and a woman after.”
“It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired.' [After winning his first Oscar after so many losses]”
“When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.”
“I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer.”
“I'm not an aspiring writer; I'm a writer aspiring to be read.”
“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”