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Memory is a powerful thing for a writer.

I grew up on popular music, and rock-and-roll expresses very deep feelings of those people who don't have a lot.

In the country in Kentucky, people are just amazed that anybody in New York wants to read about their lives.

'In Country' was also made into a film, which opened the story up to a broader audience.

One reason to fashion a story is to lift a grudge.

The way I see it, a clever cat prowls but calls home occasionally.

I wanted to be somebody, go somewhere, do something with my life.

I used my NEA fellowship to write my novel, 'In Country,' which was published by Harper & Row in 1985.

I like to play with words and the sounds of words - that's extremely important to me.

It was important for me to understand who I am and where I came from. To get a hold on why I do certain things.

The small family farm is dying; people's lives are being dislocated.

Some people will stay at home and be content there. Others are born to run. It's that conflict that fascinates me.

I don't know, it is a very quiet rebellion. [ ... ] I don't get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.

Bruce Springsteen's world is where everybody did these terrible jobs, if they had jobs at all, and he wanted something better.

I grew up on the precursors to rock and roll, rhythm and blues.

In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.

Reading can be just feeding, but smart reading takes us further. The classroom is one way to go deeper, but we can't stay in school forever.

I was very bookish and shy. I didn't have playmates, ever.

Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.

Writers want to be reread. They want to think that their words don't just flash by but deserve some reflection.

I was too shy to do anything but read, but there was nobody to tell me what to read.

In the 1980s, Vietnam emerged in our culture as a legitimate and compelling topic for discussion rather than something to be hidden in shame.

Reading is so private, and it is often a reader's habit to finish a book, close the covers, and plunge into the next one without a backward glance.

Writing a novel about World War II and the French Resistance was a challenge both sobering and thrilling.

It was a romantic dream to be a writer. It seemed like a calling.

Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.

One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.

I never, ever talk about writing to anyone at all.

'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.

You have to realize that, when it comes to the South, we carry around a lot of baggage. The South lost the war, and I spent years denying my culture.

I'm not very articulate. The reason I write is because I don't talk.

Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.