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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Nurses don't get paid very much. It didn't take long to realize that I could make more as a writer. I loved nursing, but I loved writing more. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" Everybody complains about getting older, but I find it such a rich time of life. There are negative things about it, I suppose, but more than that, I'm finding it to be a very positive experience in which growth suggests itself in a much more alluring way than it did when I was young - isn't that funny? "

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

" For me as a writer, it's so joyful to know that someone hears and responds to what I write. "

" 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! "

" Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life. "

" 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. "

" My mom used to keep all her Christmas cards in a basket bedecked with red ribbon, and I loved to look at them all and read all the letters. "

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

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

" I just cannot stand an unmade bed. "

" 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. "

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