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" 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. "

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" I don't want to repeat myself. "

" I was a fearful kid and, for some crazy reason, a pretty fearless writer. "

" 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.' "

" I'm very good at setting goals and deadlines for myself, so I don't really need that from outside. "

" I'm phobic about thunderstorms. "

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

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

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

" Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best to spread it. "

" My mother told me once that she had her talk with God whenever she started a new sweater: 'Please don't take me in the middle of the sweater.' And as soon as she finished knitting a sweater, and it was blocked and put together, she already had the wool to start the next sweater so that nothing bad would happen. "

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

" I've never been one to let others decide what's right for me or my children. "

" 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 am such a rewriter; I have so many notebooks filled with drafts you wouldn't believe. "

" 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 child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing. "

" A good writer is always a people watcher. "

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

" Here's the thing: If you don't want your kids to read a book, fine. You can tell them not to read a book, and maybe they will and maybe they won't. But you can't say what other kids can read. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I loved 'Moneyball,' I thought that was a great Hollywood movie. I like baseball, but I don't know that you have to like baseball to like that. I thought it was really well done. "