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" By the time I was 12, I was reading my parents' books because there weren't teenage books then. "

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" In the early '70s - a very good time for children's books and their authors - editors and publishers were willing to take a chance on a new writer. They were willing and able to invest their time in nurturing writers with promise, encouraging them. "

" I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose! "

" Many of my books are set in New Jersey because that's where I was born and raised. I lived there until my kids finished elementary school. Then we moved to New Mexico, the setting for 'Tiger Eyes.' "

" It embarrasses me to flaunt anything good written about me or my books. I don't know what we're supposed to do about that. "

" I have the most loyal readers in the world. "

" My father was the youngest of seven, and nobody lived to be 60. And so we were always sitting shiva in my house, and my father would say, 'Life goes on.' "

" I can't relate to people who treat me as a 'famous person.' I only like to hang around with people who treat me as a regular person because that's what I am. All people are really just regular. "

" The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers. "

" 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 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. "

" 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'm an Obama chick. "

" When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read. "

" I am very sentimental, very emotional, but never in my writing; I am very tough. "

" I'm never doing a long novel again, truly. "

" We're supposed to be uncomfortable when we read something. That's how we learn. "

" Anybody who says, 'My childhood was completely happy,' is a person who isn't remembering the truth. "

" I can't read fiction when I'm writing fiction, because I get intimidated if I read something really good. "

" I wish I could prevent my kids from making all the mistakes I've made. But I can't do that. No parent can. "

" I used to love getting on planes. I loved the packing and going places. Now I don't because I've developed these really bad sinuses. I have to take a prednisone to fly, but it works, and I'm OK. "

" I was always a storyteller. I just didn't know it. I never shared the stories I made up inside my head when I was growing up. I never wrote them down, either. But I can't remember a time when they weren't there. "

" I'm not the world's best mother, though kids always assume I must be. "

" I don't want to repeat myself. "

" If those of us who care about making our own decisions about what to read and what to think don't take a stand, others will decide for us. "

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

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

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

" When I was first writing, my little prayers were, 'Please, please, please. Let something be published someday.' Then it went to, 'Please, please, please. Let somebody read this.' "

" I'm an optimistic person, so I like to leave my readers with a sense of hopefulness. "