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

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" I never meant to write about the experience of losing a good friend to breast cancer when I was going through it. But after it was over, I realized that although something deeply sad had happened, something truly beautiful also had. "

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

" I think writers are born, not made. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 love libraries, as anyone who has a brain does. "

" I've always felt an overwhelming need to get out what was inside. The vehicle for me was words on paper - not speech, not art, not dance, not anything else. "

" I have always believed in helping people whose work I admire. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else. "

" My favorite splurge is homemade chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream or a Sausage McMuffin with egg or scalloped potatoes or turkey yanked right off the carcass and dipped in gravy or See's chocolate. "

" In this wide world, I don't think that there's just one person for any of us. I think we look until we find one that feels right, and oftentimes, it works out just fine. "

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

" Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library, and you find a book that you love. "

" Ultimately, the less I know about what I'm doing, the better the work is. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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? "