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

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" I was so inspired by Beverly Cleary's funny and wonderful books. "

" 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. "

" Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear. "

" When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read. "

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

" 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 wanted to write what I remembered to be true. "

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

" I'm not good at keeping secrets. "

" My mother's mantra was, 'How would it look to the neighbors?' And so you don't do anything because you're worried about how it would look to the neighbors. "

" The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books. "

" It's all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it's that determination. "

" 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. "

" I'm thinking of sending out censorship packets: information to share with those who want to defend my books when they come under fire. I'll tell why I wrote them and include reviews and letters of support from children and their parents. "

" 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 never thought I wanted to write about the '50s, because I thought it was the most boring and bland decade to grow up in, and I never wanted to go back there. "

" I was twenty-seven when I began to write seriously, and after two years of rejections, my first book, 'The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo,' was accepted for publication. "

" The women's movement was slow in coming to suburban New Jersey. "

" I wish I'd gone to a small liberal-arts college where I'd have read the great books instead of a large university where I majored in early-childhood education. "

" I'll always be grateful for 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.' It brought me many, many, readers. "

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

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

" 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 have a great T-shirt that I received at the New Jersey Hall of Fame when I was inducted. It says - it makes me choke up - it says, 'I'm a Jersey tomato'... I am. I am a Jersey girl and proud of it. "

" Telling kids the truth isn't always entirely possible, but talking to them is. "

" It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. "

" I'm very lucky in that my agent and my editors know better. They don't push me. Because I don't take that well. "

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

" 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.' "

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