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

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" When I lived in Boston, I had an office that I rented because I found it wonderful to go away from my house to work: It was so quiet, and I couldn't go to the refrigerator or do the laundry. "

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

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

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

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

" If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around. "

" When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I've always felt an overwhelming need to get out what was inside. The vehicle for me was words on paper - not speech, not art, not dance, not anything else. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Writers have a reputation for being distracted. That's because writers are distracted. They are always tuned into that other voice, the one in their head that rarely turns off. "

" I have always believed in helping people whose work I admire. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 meant to write about the experience of losing a good friend to breast cancer when I was going through it. But after it was over, I realized that although something deeply sad had happened, something truly beautiful also had. "

" I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else. "

" 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. "