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" In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story. "

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" I think Chicago is the best city in the country, hands down, but I don't like the winter there anymore. "

" 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. "

" The process is different for every book, but there are similarities. I always draw from the inside out. I don't plot them ahead of time, and I'm always surprised by things that happen in my books. "

" I don't have a medicine cabinet. "

" It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing it when she's 62. "

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

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

" Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is. "

" I just cannot stand an unmade bed. "

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

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

" For me as a writer, it's so joyful to know that someone hears and responds to what I write. "

" In this wide world, I don't think that there's just one person for any of us. I think we look until we find one that feels right, and oftentimes, it works out just fine. "

" I do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well. "

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

" I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy. "

" 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. "

" Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea. "

" As a child, I saw my mother prepare for Christmas every year, and it never occurred to me that labor was involved. I thought it was my mother's joy and privilege to hang tinsel on the tree strand by strand, to make sure that every room in the house had a touch of Christmas, down to the Santa-themed rug and hand towels in the bathroom. "

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

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

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

" 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 know that sometimes it happens that a novelist is embarrassed about their early works. For me, it's the opposite: I believe 'Durable Goods' is the best thing I've written. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" I loved the 'Three Stooges.' I still do - nyuk, nyuk. "

" 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. "

" Ultimately, the less I know about what I'm doing, the better the work is. "