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" Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it. "

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" 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. "

" 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 think writers are born, not made. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you. "

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

" 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. "

" You need a place to work that works for you, and you need people to understand that when you are writing, you are doing a rarefied type of brain surgery and therefore should not be subject to a million random interruptions. "

" It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing it when she's 62. "

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

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

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

" We're such imperfect beings. I think that's more often the case than not. "

" I don't have a medicine cabinet. "

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

" People see 'tradition' as something stultifying, old, and rigid, nothing that has meaning or application for us today. But families shouldn't have to follow the blueprint of the old. They can make family traditions out of whatever makes them feel comfortable and helps bring a sense of order and stability to their lives. "

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

" My characters are like my children in a way. I create them, and then I worry about them forevermore. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 you have that deep kind of hunger that is part longing, what's better to eat than the best apple pie? Or the best potato salad and guacamole? Or the best deviled eggs and crab cakes and white chocolate raspberry pie? "