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" I know it's working when I'm writing a book if I'm laughing or crying. "

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" When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship. "

" I am not sure that the inner world of teenage girls has changed. What's most important to kids today is still the same stuff. "

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

" I wrote 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret' right out of my own experiences and my own feelings when I was in sixth grade. "

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

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

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" What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters. "

" My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book about them. Then, they become so real to me I talk about them at the dinner table as if they are real. Some people consider this weird. But my family understands. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm phobic about thunderstorms. "

" When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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! "

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