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

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

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

" When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen. "

" One of the great pleasures in writing 'The Dream Lover' was learning about some of the real people who populated George Sand's life. What a cast of characters! And what a pleasure to recreate them upon the page! "

" The friends in my real life do tend to be smart and funny and creative. I am lucky! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I never meant to write about the experience of losing a good friend to breast cancer when I was going through it. But after it was over, I realized that although something deeply sad had happened, something truly beautiful also had. "

" I love to listen to people talk, especially when they're being really honest and they're not trying to sound any particular way. "

" It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing it when she's 62. "

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

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

" 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 a child, I saw my mother prepare for Christmas every year, and it never occurred to me that labor was involved. I thought it was my mother's joy and privilege to hang tinsel on the tree strand by strand, to make sure that every room in the house had a touch of Christmas, down to the Santa-themed rug and hand towels in the bathroom. "

" 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? "

" Some people read an interesting or provocative newspaper article, and that's the end of that. A writer reads such an article, and her imagination gets fired up. Questions occur to her. She might feel an urge to finish the story that the article suggests. "

" 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. "

" If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost. "

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

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

" When I lived in Boston, I had an office that I rented because I found it wonderful to go away from my house to work: It was so quiet, and I couldn't go to the refrigerator or do the laundry. "

" When you've written long enough, you see that there's a common theme in your work. "

" I don't have a medicine cabinet. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I find life a mix of humor and pathos, and all my books reflect that to one degree or another. "

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

" With 'Durable Goods,' I meant only to write about being an army brat. What emerged was a story about compassion - the need for it, the expression of it. "

" I think it's harder - much harder - to be a good parent than to write a book. "