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" I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential in a book for felt communion, the bright largesse of intimately participating in the lives of other people. "

" The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence. "

" It's always been my hope that I would write a story that would inspire and would connect with people in a way that would touch hearts. "

" All I knew about bees when I started to write 'The Secret Life of Bees' was that they can live in a wall of your house, and that they make this incredible thing that I loved. "

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" Here is where our real selfhood is rooted, in the divine spark or seed, in the image of God imprinted on the human soul. The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence. "

" I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me. "

" Due to the sweeping time frame and the voices moving back and forth, the outline for 'The Invention of Wings' was the strangest one I've ever done. I created six large, separate outlines, one for each part of the book, and hung them around my study. "

" 'The Secret Life of Bees' was my first novel, so I had no process. I was flying by the seat of my pants, as they say, trying to understand how I, as a novelist, would work with story. "

" Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character. "

" I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab. "

" Giving voice to marginalised characters is extremely important to me. I want to explore the pain of disenfranchisement, the social strata and boundaries we create and how to make them more permeable. "

" For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at times. I know it's a problem when my husband sends the dog in to retrieve me. "

" I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn. "

" I'm always captivated by stories of women who find a way to be daring - misbehaving women. "

" On weekends, I sit in a lounge chair on my balcony. I love to be outside when the weather's right. I can stay there pretty much all day. "

" I was a Nancy Drew girl. Also Grimms' fairy tales. "

" I've noticed that most people tend to go through life preserving their differences from others. "

" Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work. "

" I was a very good nurse, but I burned out after eight years or so because it wasn't what I truly wanted to do. Writing is what I belong to. "

" I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me. "

" I don't go in search of ideas; I try to let them find me. "

" I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart. "

" I grew up in Georgia, in a small town in the southwest corner of Georgia, actually, called Sylvester. "

" As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not. "

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" A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me. "

" I think the word 'freedom' is beautiful, not so much in its phonics, but just in the power of the word itself. "