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

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

" Everybody complains about getting older, but I find it such a rich time of life. There are negative things about it, I suppose, but more than that, I'm finding it to be a very positive experience in which growth suggests itself in a much more alluring way than it did when I was young - isn't that funny? "

" I find life a mix of humor and pathos, and all my books reflect that to one degree or another. "

" 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. "

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

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

" People see 'tradition' as something stultifying, old, and rigid, nothing that has meaning or application for us today. But families shouldn't have to follow the blueprint of the old. They can make family traditions out of whatever makes them feel comfortable and helps bring a sense of order and stability to their lives. "

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

" 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. "

" When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads. "

" The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you. "

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

" I think conflict is one of the things that makes for a good story. "

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

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

" It is a happy day when I am asked to publicly recommend a book. It is also a dilemma. When I consider all the books I have loved and depended upon and profited from, how can I pick just one? "

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

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

" I don't have a medicine cabinet. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you've written long enough, you see that there's a common theme in your work. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "