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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 think titles are extremely important for novels: They can set the tone, tip you off, serve as shorthand for what the essential contents are. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As we continue to become a society of tweets, shorter and shorter messages, there's great value in the contemplation and reflection that comes from reading a long body of work. "

" My mother and her five sisters have always been living examples of the great love that can exist among sisters - and in a large family. "

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

" I just cannot stand an unmade bed. "

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

" I don't have a medicine cabinet. "

" Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections. "

" If I'm on the road for Random House, I'm presenting a book with the hope people will buy it. "

" I think writers are born, not made. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Nurses don't get paid very much. It didn't take long to realize that I could make more as a writer. I loved nursing, but I loved writing more. "

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

" 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. "

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

" When I look at my own work, I see love, loss, and loneliness. Part of it might be that I was an army brat. I moved around all the time. There was a sense of nothing being permanent. "