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

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" If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around. "

" It is a happy day when I am asked to publicly recommend a book. It is also a dilemma. When I consider all the books I have loved and depended upon and profited from, how can I pick just one? "

" 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. "

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

" Elvis is symbolic of a lot of things, dreams coming true being one of them. "

" Writers have a reputation for being distracted. That's because writers are distracted. They are always tuned into that other voice, the one in their head that rarely turns off. "

" 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! "

" It feels like my books come true. I write these things, and then they kind of end up happening. I wasn't divorced, for example, when I wrote a book about divorce. "

" 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. "

" 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 remember, as a child, wanting all the time to buy my parents presents. I stood around forlornly in fancy shops, unable to afford a single thing. "

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

" My mom used to keep all her Christmas cards in a basket bedecked with red ribbon, and I loved to look at them all and read all the letters. "

" 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. "

" I think Chicago is the best city in the country, hands down, but I don't like the winter there anymore. "

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

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

" When I look at my own work, I see love, loss, and loneliness. Part of it might be that I was an army brat. I moved around all the time. There was a sense of nothing being permanent. "

" 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. "

" With 'Durable Goods,' I meant only to write about being an army brat. What emerged was a story about compassion - the need for it, the expression of it. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I think writers are born, not made. "

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

" 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? "