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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Really, my sacred place is my study where there are books that I love and things that people have given me.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just cannot stand an unmade bed.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a medicine cabinet.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I look at my own work, I see love, loss, and loneliness. Part of it might be that I was an army brat. I moved around all the time. There was a sense of nothing being permanent.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I lived in Boston, I had an office that I rented because I found it wonderful to go away from my house to work: It was so quiet, and I couldn't go to the refrigerator or do the laundry.
- Nov 07, 2020
In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to listen to people talk, especially when they're being really honest and they're not trying to sound any particular way.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate good writing: by reading.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what you write, you need an active imagination.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need a place to work that works for you, and you need people to understand that when you are writing, you are doing a rarefied type of brain surgery and therefore should not be subject to a million random interruptions.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Laundry
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, I am not my mother. I am deeply, endlessly grateful for what she did and who she was, but I am a different kind of person.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Chicago is the best city in the country, hands down, but I don't like the winter there anymore.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody complains about getting older, but I find it such a rich time of life. There are negative things about it, I suppose, but more than that, I'm finding it to be a very positive experience in which growth suggests itself in a much more alluring way than it did when I was young - isn't that funny?
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every book is its own experience, the writing of it.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost.
- Egg
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have that deep kind of hunger that is part longing, what's better to eat than the best apple pie? Or the best potato salad and guacamole? Or the best deviled eggs and crab cakes and white chocolate raspberry pie?
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
The process is different for every book, but there are similarities. I always draw from the inside out. I don't plot them ahead of time, and I'm always surprised by things that happen in my books.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the kind of person who is entertained watching someone simply be themselves, whether they're putting their children to bed or making dinner or sitting at the table reading the morning newspaper.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the truths about life that are presented through them.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.
- Everybody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is true that all mothers do things differently from their own mothers, but they don't necessarily do them better.
- Deep Love
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- Nov 07, 2020