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" Anyone who thinks my life is cupcakes is all wrong. "

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" I'm an Obama chick. "

" I don't think I could set a book in a place without knowing it really well. "

" Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best to spread it. "

" I am not sure that the inner world of teenage girls has changed. What's most important to kids today is still the same stuff. "

" When I was young, I loved a series of books by an author called Maud Hart Lovelace and the series, which is still around, I'm happy to say, is - they're the 'Betsy-Tacy' books. "

" At the time I wrote 'Forever,' I had a 14-year-old daughter, and she was reading a lot of books about young love. "

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" My husband is a feminist! "

" I was wildly interested in puberty as a child. "

" In 1970, somebody once asked me whether I thought my books would still be around in 40 years, and I thought, 'How would I know, and why would I care?' Well, it turns out I really do care. "

" I don't have anything new to say about teenagers. "

" When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship. "

" You know what I worry about? I worry that kids today don't have enough time to just sit and daydream. "

" I believe that 'The Artist' is the kind of movie you see and you don't forget. I know it's going to stay with me. "

" I don't deal with writer's block, I don't allow myself to believe that there is such a thing. I think that there are good days and a lot more less good days. "

" Everybody wants to share life and be in love and be loved. "

" When I was growing up in the 1950s, sweaters were a huge thing. "

" My husband and I like to reminisce about how, when we were 9, we read straight through L. Frank Baum's 'Oz' series, books filled with wizards and witches. And you know what those subversive tales taught us? That we loved to read! "

" I do quite a bit of traveling. But sometimes I just want to stay at home! "

" Nobody talks about housewives anymore! This is what we were supposed to do in the '50s. Not everybody, but in my milieu. My crowd. You went to college, and you got a degree in case, God forbid, you ever had to work. And you better find somebody to marry while you're there, because otherwise, what's going to become of you? "

" The list of gifted teachers and librarians who find their jobs in jeopardy for defending their students' right to read, to imagine, to question, grows every year. "

" What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters. "

" I think divorce is a tragedy, traumatic and horribly painful for everybody. That's why I wrote 'Smart Women.' I want kids to read that and to think what life might be like for their parents. And I want parents to think about what life is like for their kids. "

" I used to read about people who'd say, 'I dream my books, and then I write them down.' And I was like, 'Oh, please.' "

" I don't want to repeat myself. "

" I discovered the National Coalition Against Censorship when I felt totally alone in my fight to protect intellectual freedom, and that group changed my life. I was no longer alone. "

" You should always go through the first draft of a book all at once, I think, to get the best results. You can take time off after the first draft and come back to it fresh. "

" I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives. "