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

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" I just cannot stand an unmade bed. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner. "

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

" Not being as self-contained as men, we need to share things: It's almost as though you only know what you feel about things after you share them with a woman. "

" As for the notion that everything has already been said, maybe it has, but life is like meatloaf: there are so many different ways to present it. "

" 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've been to Iowa many times before. You have to love Iowa, or you're not an American. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is. "

" Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea. "

" I think conflict is one of the things that makes for a good story. "

" 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. "

" As we continue to become a society of tweets, shorter and shorter messages, there's great value in the contemplation and reflection that comes from reading a long body of work. "

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

" The process is different for every book, but there are similarities. I always draw from the inside out. I don't plot them ahead of time, and I'm always surprised by things that happen in my books. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Some people read an interesting or provocative newspaper article, and that's the end of that. A writer reads such an article, and her imagination gets fired up. Questions occur to her. She might feel an urge to finish the story that the article suggests. "

" 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. "