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" Every book is its own experience, the writing of it. "

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" You need a place to work that works for you, and you need people to understand that when you are writing, you are doing a rarefied type of brain surgery and therefore should not be subject to a million random interruptions. "

" 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. "

" When you have that deep kind of hunger that is part longing, what's better to eat than the best apple pie? Or the best potato salad and guacamole? Or the best deviled eggs and crab cakes and white chocolate raspberry pie? "

" Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you. "

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

" Really, my sacred place is my study where there are books that I love and things that people have given me. "

" In this wide world, I don't think that there's just one person for any of us. I think we look until we find one that feels right, and oftentimes, it works out just fine. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy. "

" No, I never thought that I would be a writer. I had always been told I could write well, but it never occurred to me that I might make my living that way. "

" The process of writing and creating and answering that very unique call inside yourself has nothing to do with agents and sales and all that stuff. "

" We're such imperfect beings. I think that's more often the case than not. "

" Life is so fragile, so brief. And we seemingly work so hard at trying to ignore that. "

" 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. "

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