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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" After each book, I get panicky. I don't love the reviews. I don't like going through all that, and you would think that, after almost 40 years of writing, I'd have got the hang of it. "

" I know it's working when I'm writing a book if I'm laughing or crying. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 can't see an autobiography in my future. But who knows what might happen. "

" I don't do issue writing. I do character writing. "

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

" I wasn't that good at science, and I gave up on math long before I should have. I like to think if I were in school today that would be different. "

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

" I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great. "

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

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

" As a child who loved to read, I had trouble finding honest stories. I felt that adults were always keeping secrets from me, even in the books I was reading. "

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

" Parents still have a big influence on their kids - just ask any therapist. No, really, I think the parent is the most important influence on children: It's how they learn to love and treat other people. "

" It's good to have fantasies and creative fantasies, especially. "

" 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 never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet. "

" Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination. "

" I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became. "

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

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

" When a parent comes into school waving a book and saying, 'Take this book away. I don't like this book.' I won't say in all cases, but in many cases, that will not happen anymore. It has to go through a proper review board. The complaining parent will have to fill out a complaint, you know, put it in writing. "

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

" 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. "