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" 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. "

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

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

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

" I think writers are born, not made. "

" If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I loved the 'Three Stooges.' I still do - nyuk, nyuk. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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! "

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

" We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate good writing: by reading. "

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

" When I lived alone in Chicago, I had a lot of loneliness issues. "

" 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. "