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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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? "

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

" We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate good writing: by reading. "

" 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? "

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

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

" 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. "

" My characters are like my children in a way. I create them, and then I worry about them forevermore. "

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

" I love to listen to people talk, especially when they're being really honest and they're not trying to sound any particular way. "

" 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. "

" Ideas come from life: what happens in mine, what I see happening in others', mixed with a great deal of imagination. I might see a person in a grocery store and build a whole character and life out of what's in her basket. "

" Some people read an interesting or provocative newspaper article, and that's the end of that. A writer reads such an article, and her imagination gets fired up. Questions occur to her. She might feel an urge to finish the story that the article suggests. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person. "

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

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

" You should not pay too much attention to what anyone tells you, including me. It's very, very important to follow your own map. "

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

" I'm the kind of person who is entertained watching someone simply be themselves, whether they're putting their children to bed or making dinner or sitting at the table reading the morning newspaper. "

" It feels like my books come true. I write these things, and then they kind of end up happening. I wasn't divorced, for example, when I wrote a book about divorce. "

" My favorite splurge is homemade chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream or a Sausage McMuffin with egg or scalloped potatoes or turkey yanked right off the carcass and dipped in gravy or See's chocolate. "