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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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

" I'm the kind of person who is entertained watching someone simply be themselves, whether they're putting their children to bed or making dinner or sitting at the table reading the morning newspaper. "

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

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

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

" I just cannot stand an unmade bed. "

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

" I think writers are born, not made. "

" As a child, I saw my mother prepare for Christmas every year, and it never occurred to me that labor was involved. I thought it was my mother's joy and privilege to hang tinsel on the tree strand by strand, to make sure that every room in the house had a touch of Christmas, down to the Santa-themed rug and hand towels in the bathroom. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Really, my sacred place is my study where there are books that I love and things that people have given me. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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