Quotes by Mary Kay Andrews - Page 1

I'm house obsessed, a house voyeur. Always have been.
Mary Kay Andrews / Writer
Voyeur
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I always wanted to use my newspaper background in a novel.
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Newspaper
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As a hopeless romantic, I'm drawn to stories of improbable beginnings.
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Hopeless
Hopeless Romantic
Improbable
Stories
Beginnings
Drawn
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I wanted a garret hideaway to write in like Jo March in 'Little Women.'
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March
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Technology and the internet have changed the world of publishing forever.
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Technology
Forever
World
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For years, I swore I couldn't work out because my own sweat gave me a rash.
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Sweat
Work Me My Own
Rash
Swore
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You have more issues than National Geographic by Austin LeFleur in Hissy Fit
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Austin
Fit
Issues
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We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.
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Believable
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I try to start drinking water as soon as my feet hit the floor in the morning.
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Drinking
Drinking Water
Floor
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I want characters I can live for in a setting that makes me feel like I'm there.
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Setting
Me Feel Live
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Some of my most enjoyable moments as a writer have come while conjuring a meet cute.
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Cute
Enjoyable
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For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.
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Christmas
Elusive
Capturing
Problematic
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The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.
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Best Way
Broken
Broken Heart
Heal
Turns
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Southern women, especially upper-middle-class women, care deeply about appearances and what other people think.
Mary Kay Andrews / Writer
Women People Care
Appearances
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Slipcovers are great because they can be laundered after those all-too-frequent sippy cup and red wine incidents.
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Incidents
Red Wine
Wine
Cup
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Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway.
Mary Kay Andrews / Writer
Blessing
Dinner
Holiday
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The story of my holiday decorating is if Ralph Lauren was trapped in a 1950s Woolworth, this is what it would look like.
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Decorating
Holiday
Lauren
Trapped
Ralph
Ralph Lauren
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As soon as I started reading, I found myself drawn to fictional character's homes as much as I was to the characters themselves.
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Drawn
Fictional
Homes
Started Reading
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On my first trip to New York in the 1980s, the first place I wanted to visit was the Plaza Hotel, home to Kay Thompson's Eloise.
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Hotel
First Place
Plaza
Thompson
Trip
Visit
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I had never thought about writing a novel. But I had two young kids, and I realized that if I could write a novel, I could work at home.
Mary Kay Andrews / Writer
If I Could
Young Kids
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My characters are turned upside down and trying to reinvent themselves but don't need a white knight. They can save themselves in a crisis.
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Crisis
Upside Down
Reinvent
Upside
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One of the things that attracts me to vintage and antique things is they have stories, and even if I don't know the stories, I make them up.
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Stories
Vintage
Things
Me
Antique
Make
Me Know Things
Attracts
Them
Even
One Of The Things
Up
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My protagonists have problems that a new pair of shoes won't solve. Retail therapy is not a bad thing, but it's not going to fix their lives.
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Protagonists
Retail
Therapy
Bad Thing
Pair
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Critics will tell you the 'meet cute' is a tired old writing cliche, but the thing is, cliche's work - because they ring true with the reader.
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Cute
Critics
Ring
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I was supposed to be working on 'The Weekenders,' but I was blocked. I got this crazy idea that I would make Christmas stockings out of blankets.
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Christmas
Blocked
Stockings
Blankets
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Modern love - in the movies and music - especially country music - is full of tales of women exacting sweet revenge on the men who done them wrong.
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Revenge
Tales
Love Men Women
Country Music
Exacting
Love Women Men
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I wasn't always overweight. I was a skinny little punk of a kid with severe asthma. When I got married at the age of 22, I wore a cut-down size eight wedding gown.
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Wedding
Overweight
Severe
Gown
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And that point is, it doesn't matter how long you've known somebody. People change. Or you don't really know them as well as you thought you did in the first place.
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Long
Matter
People
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My ideal beach house has bookshelves full of paperbacks that can tolerate a little sand, a DVD library that includes some Disney classics for the little ones, board games, and jigsaw puzzles. At least one big flatscreen television is a must.
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Beach
Jigsaw
Library
Puzzles
Sand
Tolerate
At Least One
Board
Classics
Disney
Ideal
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Between planning family vacations and running away for novel-writing retreats, I've spent much of my adult life questing for the perfect beach escape, renting cottages all along the Florida Gulf and up and down the Atlantic Coast - as far north as Nags Head, as far south as Key West.
Mary Kay Andrews / Writer
Running
Beach
Coast
Florida
Perfect
Planning
Running Away
Up And Down
Adult
Adult Life
Atlantic
Escape
Gulf
Head
North
Renting
Retreats
Spent
Vacations
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My perfect beach town isn't a fancy resort or glitzy planned community. It's a place with a hometown grocery that has decent meat, seafood, and a deli; a couple of ice cream shops; and a handful of good restaurants - where the island-wide dress code is 'no shoes, no shirt, no problem.'
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Beach
Code
Cream
Decent
Fancy
Handful
Hometown
Ice
Ice Cream
Meat
No Problem
Restaurants
Seafood
Shops
Deli
Grocery
Planned
Resort
Shirt
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Patti Callahan Henry’s THE STORIES WE TELL is a lyrical exploration of love and longing, secrets and suspicion, family and friendship, all told with the author’s trademark insights into the hollows and curves of the heart and mind of a working woman who must balance the demands of motherhood, wifedom, sisterhood, and yes, the deepest cravings for artistic expression. I always love the stories PCH tells!
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Heart
Motherhood
Sisterhood
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Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from school. And I didn't like the direction journalism was taking. I thought if I could write books, I could work at home and have the best of both worlds. I wrote my first mystery while still working full time, and it didn't sell, but the next one did sell, so I quit my job for the world of fiction. Scary, but I've never regretted it for a single day.
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Jobs
Book
Children
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