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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a book wants to take longer, it can. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I hope to show the great worth of women. So far as I'm concerned, we're still underappreciated. "

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

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

" I've been to Iowa many times before. You have to love Iowa, or you're not an American. "

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

" I remember, as a child, wanting all the time to buy my parents presents. I stood around forlornly in fancy shops, unable to afford a single thing. "

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

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

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

" I love libraries, as anyone who has a brain does. "

" If I'm on the road for Random House, I'm presenting a book with the hope people will buy it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "