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

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" 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. "

" 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'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! "

" 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 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.' "

" You're supposed to be challenged in college. "

" My kids both had acne, and I never saw a book dealing with the subject. "

" 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 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. "

" Nobody ever asks me why my characters don't text each other. Besides, as soon as you put something 'electronic' in a book, it's already out of date by the time it's published: everything will have changed. Human emotion, on the other hand, will never change. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" My husband is a feminist! "

" A good writer is always a people watcher. "

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

" I'm not good at keeping secrets. "

" 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. "

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

" You should always go through the first draft of a book all at once, I think, to get the best results. You can take time off after the first draft and come back to it fresh. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I'm writing, I'm never trying to teach anything - maybe I'm trying to illuminate. "

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

" At the time I wrote 'Forever,' I had a 14-year-old daughter, and she was reading a lot of books about young love. "

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

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

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