Kathy Lette on “Why I Write”

I write because it’s cheaper than therapy. It’s also excellent revenge. Poetic justice is the only justice in the world. You can always impale enemies on the end of your pen. Books are literally penicillin. I think doctors should prescribe Brontë or an awe-inspiring Austen in lieu of antidepressants. I’d call it Prose-ac – except it’s the opposite of tranquilising. It’s transforming. For writer and reader.

Kathy Lette, together with Gabrielle Carey wrote a cult bestseller Puberty Blues back in the ’70s under the stage name the Salami Sisters.

Quoted from Elle UK November 2008.

A Triumph For Patience

I AM HUMPTY DUMPTY. I CAN ONLY JUMP ONCE.

- George Mitchell