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

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" I think writers are born, not made. "

" I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the truths about life that are presented through them. "

" Traditions are the inventions of people who mean to routinely put love and comfort and meaning into their lives and in the lives of those they live with. "

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

" No, I am not my mother. I am deeply, endlessly grateful for what she did and who she was, but I am a different kind of person. "

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

" One of the great pleasures in writing 'The Dream Lover' was learning about some of the real people who populated George Sand's life. What a cast of characters! And what a pleasure to recreate them upon the page! "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Women have a real talent for bearing up under hard times. "

" Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life. "

" As for my 'real life,' yes, I do have friends who are different from me, and I find it refreshing being around them. "

" I hope to show the great worth of women. So far as I'm concerned, we're still underappreciated. "

" 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. "

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

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

" No matter what you write, you need an active imagination. "