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

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" Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of 'The Great Gatsby.' "

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

" I don't believe in happy families. "

" I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature. "

" Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own. "

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

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

" I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling. "

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

" I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course. "

" The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. "

" 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 hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate. "