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

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" My husband and I like to reminisce about how, when we were 9, we read straight through L. Frank Baum's 'Oz' series, books filled with wizards and witches. And you know what those subversive tales taught us? That we loved to read! "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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