A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
This is an important book the critic assumes because it deals with war....
People look at me and they go 'You're white you're smart you must have...
Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.
