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

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" Life is so fragile, so brief. And we seemingly work so hard at trying to ignore that. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I don't really like questions about the writing process, because the truth is I don't know how I write. "

" I just cannot stand an unmade bed. "

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

" 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. "

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

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" If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As for the notion that everything has already been said, maybe it has, but life is like meatloaf: there are so many different ways to present it. "

" 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. "