Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person. — Diane Johnson
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps — Diane Johnson
A novel’s whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; — Diane Johnson
Women have the feeling that since they didn’t make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them. — Diane Johnson
