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

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

" 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? "

" When I wrote 'Home Safe,' I wanted to look at a number of things: the mystery and joy and pain of creativity. What happens when a vital safety net is suddenly removed. The difficulty some people have in growing up. The way a deep love can be as crippling as it is satisfying. But mostly, I wanted to look at the mother-daughter relationship. "

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

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

" I don't have a medicine cabinet. "

" 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 do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well. "

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

" It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a book wants to take longer, it can. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I find life a mix of humor and pathos, and all my books reflect that to one degree or another. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "