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I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

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I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

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I don't believe in happy families.

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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

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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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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 think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.

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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 26th, 1945

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