43 Quotes by Mary Kay Andrews

I always wanted to use my newspaper background in a novel.

Southern women, especially upper-middle-class women, care deeply about appearances and what other people think.

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.

I guess because I'm a washed-up journalist, I always do a lot of research.

I want characters I can live for in a setting that makes me feel like I'm there.

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.

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.

Slipcovers are great because they can be laundered after those all-too-frequent sippy cup and red wine incidents.

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.