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

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" We're such imperfect beings. I think that's more often the case than not. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" If I could visit dead authors, I'd head right over to E. B. White, though I'm so in awe of him I'd probably just sit at his feet and weep. He's the master of clarity, of understated humor, of palatable political conviction. "

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

" 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 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? "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I never was a big believer that you can teach writing per se. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I got married at twenty-five and had children right away, so I didn't have the worry that I would never get to have children. "

" With 'Durable Goods,' I meant only to write about being an army brat. What emerged was a story about compassion - the need for it, the expression of it. "

" If I'm on the road for Random House, I'm presenting a book with the hope people will buy it. "

" No, I am not my mother. I am deeply, endlessly grateful for what she did and who she was, but I am a different kind of person. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" The process of writing and creating and answering that very unique call inside yourself has nothing to do with agents and sales and all that stuff. "

" Really, my sacred place is my study where there are books that I love and things that people have given me. "

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

" A ritual or tradition can be as simple as something you do every night, like read a story to a small child, or something you do weekly, such as go out for Chinese food. "

" 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. "