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

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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 tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You should not pay too much attention to what anyone tells you, including me. It's very, very important to follow your own map. "

" I love to listen to people talk, especially when they're being really honest and they're not trying to sound any particular way. "

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

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

" I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I started writing for magazines. I wrote essays and then short stories, then moved into novels. "

" 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. "

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

" It is true that all mothers do things differently from their own mothers, but they don't necessarily do them better. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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! "

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" 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. "

" I think writers are born, not made. "