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• ‟ I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.

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

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• ‟ When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

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

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Writing has never been that simple for me.

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• ‟ I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'

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

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• ‟ Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators.

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• ‟ Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of 'The Great Gatsby.'

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• ‟ My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.

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

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