Mary Kay Andrews Quotes
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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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Slipcovers are great because they can be laundered after those all-too-frequent sippy cup and red wine incidents.
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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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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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Southern women, especially upper-middle-class women, care deeply about appearances and what other people think.
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Some of my most enjoyable moments as a writer have come while conjuring a meet cute.
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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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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.
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For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.
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I want my fiction to seem real.
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As a hopeless romantic, I'm drawn to stories of improbable beginnings.
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I'm house obsessed, a house voyeur. Always have been.
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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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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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I try to start drinking water as soon as my feet hit the floor in the morning.
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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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We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.
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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.
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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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I want characters I can live for in a setting that makes me feel like I'm there.
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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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I always wanted to use my newspaper background in a novel.
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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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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.