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

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" Not being as self-contained as men, we need to share things: It's almost as though you only know what you feel about things after you share them with a woman. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" You need a place to work that works for you, and you need people to understand that when you are writing, you are doing a rarefied type of brain surgery and therefore should not be subject to a million random interruptions. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As for my 'real life,' yes, I do have friends who are different from me, and I find it refreshing being around them. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" The process is different for every book, but there are similarities. I always draw from the inside out. I don't plot them ahead of time, and I'm always surprised by things that happen in my books. "

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

" 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. "

" If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner. "

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

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

" I think writers are born, not made. "

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

" 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. "

" No matter what kind of writing you do, it's always the details that make the story. "