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

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" I love to watch movies. "

" I have a great T-shirt that I received at the New Jersey Hall of Fame when I was inducted. It says - it makes me choke up - it says, 'I'm a Jersey tomato'... I am. I am a Jersey girl and proud of it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I wanted to write what I remembered to be true. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I don't think it's realistic to say kids shouldn't watch any TV. I just wish the shows would be better. And that kids would watch less. Get out there and do things, kids! Don't become couch potatoes! "

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

" 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'm not good at keeping secrets. "

" 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 wish I'd gone to a small liberal-arts college where I'd have read the great books instead of a large university where I majored in early-childhood education. "

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

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

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

" Telling kids the truth isn't always entirely possible, but talking to them is. "

" I still have such a thing for leather jackets. I have a closet full of them, and my husband is always saying to me, 'Why do you need another jacket? You have plenty of jackets.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "