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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" My characters are like my children in a way. I create them, and then I worry about them forevermore. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" Never try to copy other writers, and never try to have a formula. It has to come from your heart and soul. "

" 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. "

" It is a happy day when I am asked to publicly recommend a book. It is also a dilemma. When I consider all the books I have loved and depended upon and profited from, how can I pick just one? "

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

" I just cannot stand an unmade bed. "

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

" I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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