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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. "

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

" If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around. "

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

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

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

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

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

" When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen. "

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

" 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. "

" Some people read an interesting or provocative newspaper article, and that's the end of that. A writer reads such an article, and her imagination gets fired up. Questions occur to her. She might feel an urge to finish the story that the article suggests. "

" 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. "

" I think titles are extremely important for novels: They can set the tone, tip you off, serve as shorthand for what the essential contents are. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I don't have a medicine cabinet. "

" In writing a novel about George Sand, I hoped to present her as the talented, beguiling, complicated and occasionally infuriating woman I think she was, but I hope, too, that readers will enjoy the people she surrounded herself with. "

" 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. "

" Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" For me as a writer, it's so joyful to know that someone hears and responds to what I write. "