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

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" The protests against Harry Potter follow a tradition that has been growing since the early 1980s and often leaves school principals trembling with fear that is then passed down to teachers and librarians. "

" 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. "

" Everything they say a girl should get from her father in terms of total acceptance and love, I got all that from my father. But then I married a man just like my mother - so phlegmatic. "

" 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. "

" I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head. "

" If only there was a vaccine to protect against breast cancer, we'd be lining up - wouldn't we? "

" 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. "

" I wrote 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret' right out of my own experiences and my own feelings when I was in sixth grade. "

" I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning. "

" Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time' has been targeted by censors for promoting New Ageism, and Mark Twain's 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' for promoting racism. Gee, where does that leave the kids? "

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

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

" People need stories; they want stories. They always will. "

" 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. "

" What can happen if a young reader picks up a book he/she isn't yet ready for? Questions, maybe. Usually, that child puts down the book and says, 'Boring.' Or, 'I'm not ready for this.' Kids are really good at knowing what they can handle. "

" 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. "

" I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title.' "

" I dread first drafts! I worry each day that it won't come, that nothing will happen. "

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book about them. Then, they become so real to me I talk about them at the dinner table as if they are real. Some people consider this weird. But my family understands. "

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