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" My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood. "

" Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling. "

" I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta. "

" I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood. "

" I don't believe in happy families. "

" My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life. "

" I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell. "

" I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival. "

" There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe. "

" I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father. "

" Without music, life is a journey through a desert. "

" Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges. "

" The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do. "

" I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara. "

" I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange. "

" My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own. "

" I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.' "

" To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance. "

" I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown. "

" When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year. "

" I'm not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I'm grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules. "

" I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee. "

" When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian soul. Though I've failed to read either man to completion, they both helped me to imagine that my fictional South Carolina was as vast a literary acreage as their Russia. "

" I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist. "

" I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me. "

" Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of 'The Great Gatsby.' "

" I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature. "

" Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family. "

" It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever. "

" I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work. "