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" My characters are turned upside down and trying to reinvent themselves but don't need a white knight. They can save themselves in a crisis. "
Mary Kay Andrews
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" I wasn't always overweight. I was a skinny little punk of a kid with severe asthma. When I got married at the age of 22, I wore a cut-down size eight wedding gown. "
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" I wanted a garret hideaway to write in like Jo March in 'Little Women.' "
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" I was supposed to be working on 'The Weekenders,' but I was blocked. I got this crazy idea that I would make Christmas stockings out of blankets. "
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" Between planning family vacations and running away for novel-writing retreats, I've spent much of my adult life questing for the perfect beach escape, renting cottages all along the Florida Gulf and up and down the Atlantic Coast - as far north as Nags Head, as far south as Key West. "
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Planning
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" I always wanted to use my newspaper background in a novel. "
Mary Kay Andrews
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Always
Background
" I guess because I'm a washed-up journalist, I always do a lot of research. "
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" I'm house obsessed, a house voyeur. Always have been. "
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Voyeur
House
" Southern women, especially upper-middle-class women, care deeply about appearances and what other people think. "
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Appearances
People
Women
" One of the things that attracts me to vintage and antique things is they have stories, and even if I don't know the stories, I make them up. "
Mary Kay Andrews
Know
Antique
Me
" I had never thought about writing a novel. But I had two young kids, and I realized that if I could write a novel, I could work at home. "
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Thought
Work
Writing
" I want characters I can live for in a setting that makes me feel like I'm there. "
Mary Kay Andrews
Want
Like
Live
" We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable. "
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Trying
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World
" Although I married a sports-loving jock, I myself am not only not athletic, I am acutely, completely uncoordinated. "
Mary Kay Andrews
Only
Athletic
Myself
" As soon as I started reading, I found myself drawn to fictional character's homes as much as I was to the characters themselves. "
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Reading
Myself
" Some of my most enjoyable moments as a writer have come while conjuring a meet cute. "
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Most
Meet
Moments
" Slipcovers are great because they can be laundered after those all-too-frequent sippy cup and red wine incidents. "
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Red Wine
Wine
Cup
" The story of my holiday decorating is if Ralph Lauren was trapped in a 1950s Woolworth, this is what it would look like. "
Mary Kay Andrews
Holiday
Trapped
Like
" I try to start drinking water as soon as my feet hit the floor in the morning. "
Mary Kay Andrews
Feet
Morning
Start
" My ideal beach house has bookshelves full of paperbacks that can tolerate a little sand, a DVD library that includes some Disney classics for the little ones, board games, and jigsaw puzzles. At least one big flatscreen television is a must. "
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Television
Sand
Library
" For years, I swore I couldn't work out because my own sweat gave me a rash. "
Mary Kay Andrews
My Own
Me
Own
" The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt. "
Mary Kay Andrews
Best
Heart
Hurt
" For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic. "
Mary Kay Andrews
Magic
Christmas
Writer
" As a hopeless romantic, I'm drawn to stories of improbable beginnings. "
Mary Kay Andrews
Romantic
Hopeless
Beginnings
" On my first trip to New York in the 1980s, the first place I wanted to visit was the Plaza Hotel, home to Kay Thompson's Eloise. "
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Trip
Place
Home
" My perfect beach town isn't a fancy resort or glitzy planned community. It's a place with a hometown grocery that has decent meat, seafood, and a deli; a couple of ice cream shops; and a handful of good restaurants - where the island-wide dress code is 'no shoes, no shirt, no problem.' "
Mary Kay Andrews
Good
Beach
Community
" Critics will tell you the 'meet cute' is a tired old writing cliche, but the thing is, cliche's work - because they ring true with the reader. "
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Cute
Tired
True
" Modern love - in the movies and music - especially country music - is full of tales of women exacting sweet revenge on the men who done them wrong. "
Mary Kay Andrews
Women
Men
Sweet
" I want my fiction to seem real. "
Mary Kay Andrews
Seem
Fiction
Real