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" I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee. "

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" The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina. "

" Without music, life is a journey through a desert. "

" It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever. "

" When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year. "

" To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance. "

" I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist. "

" A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire. "

" I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta. "

" There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people. "

" I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character. "

" I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.' "

" A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground. "

" My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood. "

" I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown. "

" Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges. "

" I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father. "

" I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell. "

" The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do. "

" I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work. "

" When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian soul. Though I've failed to read either man to completion, they both helped me to imagine that my fictional South Carolina was as vast a literary acreage as their Russia. "

" Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators. "

" When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome. "

" I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival. "

" I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me. "

" I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood. "

" I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.' "

" I'm not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I'm grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules. "

" I don't believe in happy families. "

" My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life. "

" A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal. "