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

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" I know that sometimes it happens that a novelist is embarrassed about their early works. For me, it's the opposite: I believe 'Durable Goods' is the best thing I've written. "

" 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. "

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

" My favorite splurge is homemade chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream or a Sausage McMuffin with egg or scalloped potatoes or turkey yanked right off the carcass and dipped in gravy or See's chocolate. "

" 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. "

" I don't have a medicine cabinet. "

" Life is so fragile, so brief. And we seemingly work so hard at trying to ignore that. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have always believed in helping people whose work I admire. "

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

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

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

" No matter what kind of writing you do, it's always the details that make the story. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

" 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. "

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

" Ideas come from life: what happens in mine, what I see happening in others', mixed with a great deal of imagination. I might see a person in a grocery store and build a whole character and life out of what's in her basket. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "