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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" In writing a novel about George Sand, I hoped to present her as the talented, beguiling, complicated and occasionally infuriating woman I think she was, but I hope, too, that readers will enjoy the people she surrounded herself with. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I lived alone in Chicago, I had a lot of loneliness issues. "

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

" When I wrote 'Home Safe,' I wanted to look at a number of things: the mystery and joy and pain of creativity. What happens when a vital safety net is suddenly removed. The difficulty some people have in growing up. The way a deep love can be as crippling as it is satisfying. But mostly, I wanted to look at the mother-daughter relationship. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I started writing for magazines. I wrote essays and then short stories, then moved into novels. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The process of writing and creating and answering that very unique call inside yourself has nothing to do with agents and sales and all that stuff. "

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

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

" I got married at twenty-five and had children right away, so I didn't have the worry that I would never get to have children. "