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All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

Lots of my writing can be accurately called lesbian, but I myself am queer and date people of all genders.

Virginia Woolf was wrong. You do not need a room of your own to write.

Of course it is very limiting to be labeled a lesbian or queer writer. We live in a homophobic culture, and even people who aren't hateful per se assume they won't get anything from a queer book.

I was influenced by big, strong voices - writers like Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, Jane Bowles; gay writers like Ed White, Michael Cunningham, Allen Hollinghurst; and contemporary lesbian writers, like Dorothy Allison.

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

I admire Virginia Woolf so much that I wonder why I don't like her more. She makes the inner things real, she does illumine, and she makes relationships realities as well as people. But I remember the intensity, the thrill, with which I read 'Passage to India.' How I would have hated anyone who took the book away from me.

I'm bisexual.

I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.