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" As for my 'real life,' yes, I do have friends who are different from me, and I find it refreshing being around them. "

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" Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library, and you find a book that you love. "

" Writers have a reputation for being distracted. That's because writers are distracted. They are always tuned into that other voice, the one in their head that rarely turns off. "

" As we continue to become a society of tweets, shorter and shorter messages, there's great value in the contemplation and reflection that comes from reading a long body of work. "

" Not being as self-contained as men, we need to share things: It's almost as though you only know what you feel about things after you share them with a woman. "

" For me as a writer, it's so joyful to know that someone hears and responds to what I write. "

" If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around. "

" I never was a big believer that you can teach writing per se. "

" Traditions are the inventions of people who mean to routinely put love and comfort and meaning into their lives and in the lives of those they live with. "

" In writing a novel about George Sand, I hoped to present her as the talented, beguiling, complicated and occasionally infuriating woman I think she was, but I hope, too, that readers will enjoy the people she surrounded herself with. "

" Ultimately, the less I know about what I'm doing, the better the work is. "

" I don't have a medicine cabinet. "

" I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I started writing for magazines. I wrote essays and then short stories, then moved into novels. "

" When I lived alone in Chicago, I had a lot of loneliness issues. "

" Elvis is symbolic of a lot of things, dreams coming true being one of them. "

" I like my house to feel like a place where I can just lie back and say, 'Ahhhhh, I'm home.' "

" Writing was always a release for me, a great joy. It wasn't work. "

" I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person. "

" I loved the 'Three Stooges.' I still do - nyuk, nyuk. "

" My characters are like my children in a way. I create them, and then I worry about them forevermore. "

" I don't really like questions about the writing process, because the truth is I don't know how I write. "

" I think titles are extremely important for novels: They can set the tone, tip you off, serve as shorthand for what the essential contents are. "

" I know that sometimes it happens that a novelist is embarrassed about their early works. For me, it's the opposite: I believe 'Durable Goods' is the best thing I've written. "

" I think Chicago is the best city in the country, hands down, but I don't like the winter there anymore. "

" I'm nuts about the South - the people, the language, the food, the land, the stories and writers that come from there - but it's hard to know whether I'll use it as a location again. "

" I've always felt an overwhelming need to get out what was inside. The vehicle for me was words on paper - not speech, not art, not dance, not anything else. "

" It feels like my books come true. I write these things, and then they kind of end up happening. I wasn't divorced, for example, when I wrote a book about divorce. "

" Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it. "

" I just cannot stand an unmade bed. "

" I think conflict is one of the things that makes for a good story. "

" As for the notion that everything has already been said, maybe it has, but life is like meatloaf: there are so many different ways to present it. "