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

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" No, I am not my mother. I am deeply, endlessly grateful for what she did and who she was, but I am a different kind of person. "

" People see 'tradition' as something stultifying, old, and rigid, nothing that has meaning or application for us today. But families shouldn't have to follow the blueprint of the old. They can make family traditions out of whatever makes them feel comfortable and helps bring a sense of order and stability to their lives. "

" 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. "

" I got married at twenty-five and had children right away, so I didn't have the worry that I would never get to have children. "

" Women have a real talent for bearing up under hard times. "

" No matter what you write, you need an active imagination. "

" When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads. "

" Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is. "

" I'm the kind of person who is entertained watching someone simply be themselves, whether they're putting their children to bed or making dinner or sitting at the table reading the morning newspaper. "

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

" 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. "

" I do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well. "

" No matter what kind of writing you do, it's always the details that make the story. "

" It is a happy day when I am asked to publicly recommend a book. It is also a dilemma. When I consider all the books I have loved and depended upon and profited from, how can I pick just one? "

" If I could visit dead authors, I'd head right over to E. B. White, though I'm so in awe of him I'd probably just sit at his feet and weep. He's the master of clarity, of understated humor, of palatable political conviction. "

" I don't have a medicine cabinet. "

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

" The process is different for every book, but there are similarities. I always draw from the inside out. I don't plot them ahead of time, and I'm always surprised by things that happen in my books. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Ideas come from life: what happens in mine, what I see happening in others', mixed with a great deal of imagination. I might see a person in a grocery store and build a whole character and life out of what's in her basket. "

" People don't take you seriously, so you have to take yourself seriously. "

" I think writers are born, not made. "

" When I look at my own work, I see love, loss, and loneliness. Part of it might be that I was an army brat. I moved around all the time. There was a sense of nothing being permanent. "

" I have not been in a book club where there were any men, and I have not, in fact, heard of book groups that were mixed. "

" My mother and her five sisters have always been living examples of the great love that can exist among sisters - and in a large family. "

" I just cannot stand an unmade bed. "