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" 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. "

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" I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them. "

" When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside. "

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

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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 wildly interested in puberty as a child. "

" My husband is a feminist! "

" I'm phobic about thunderstorms. "

" I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A good writer is always a people watcher. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" In sixth grade, I made up books to give book reports on. "

" I love to watch movies. "

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

" 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. "

" My father died when I was still in college, and it was sudden, and he was my beloved parent, and you just can't imagine what you life is going to be like. "

" 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.' "

" Life goes on if you're one of the lucky ones. "

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

" 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 an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once. "