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" I just cannot stand an unmade bed. "

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" 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! "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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? "

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

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

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