Jamaica Kincaid — Novelist born on May 25, 1949,

Jamaica Kincaid is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in St. John's, Antigua, which is part of the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda. She lives in North Bennington, Vermont, during the summers and teaches at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California as the "Josephine Olp Weeks Chair and Professor of Literature" as well as the "Professor of African and American studies in Residence" at Harvard during the academic year. Kincaid is an award-winning writer whose work has been both praised and criticized for its subject matter because her writing largely draws upon her own life and her tone is often perceived as angry. In response, Kincaid counters that many writers also draw upon personal experience, and thus to describe her writing as autobiographical and angry is not valid criticism... (wikipedia)

I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a hindrance.
One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.
I've never gotten used to winter and never will.
I'm so used to being misunderstood.
People only say I'm angry because I'm black and I'm a woman. But all sorts of people write with strong feeling, the way I do.