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" Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling. "

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" I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father. "

" I'm not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I'm grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules. "

" A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal. "

" Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks. "

" I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work. "

" I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate. "

" A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire. "

" I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell. "

" I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival. "

" I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist. "

" I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure. "

" The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do. "

" Writing has never been that simple for me. "

" I don't believe in happy families. "

" A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground. "

" To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance. "

" The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. "

" My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood. "

" When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome. "

" There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe. "

" It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever. "

" Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family. "

" I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.' "

" My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life. "

" I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange. "

" I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me. "

" When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian soul. Though I've failed to read either man to completion, they both helped me to imagine that my fictional South Carolina was as vast a literary acreage as their Russia. "

" Without music, life is a journey through a desert. "