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" 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. "

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" I have always believed in helping people whose work I admire. "

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

" My favorite splurge is homemade chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream or a Sausage McMuffin with egg or scalloped potatoes or turkey yanked right off the carcass and dipped in gravy or See's chocolate. "

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

" 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? "

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

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

" In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story. "

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

" 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. "

" A ritual or tradition can be as simple as something you do every night, like read a story to a small child, or something you do weekly, such as go out for Chinese food. "

" When I wrote 'Home Safe,' I wanted to look at a number of things: the mystery and joy and pain of creativity. What happens when a vital safety net is suddenly removed. The difficulty some people have in growing up. The way a deep love can be as crippling as it is satisfying. But mostly, I wanted to look at the mother-daughter relationship. "

" 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. "

" You should not pay too much attention to what anyone tells you, including me. It's very, very important to follow your own map. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea. "

" I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the truths about life that are presented through them. "

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

" It is true that all mothers do things differently from their own mothers, but they don't necessarily do them better. "

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

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

" 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. "