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" I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives. "

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

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

" I used to love getting on planes. I loved the packing and going places. Now I don't because I've developed these really bad sinuses. I have to take a prednisone to fly, but it works, and I'm OK. "

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

" I do quite a bit of traveling. But sometimes I just want to stay at home! "

" In 1970, somebody once asked me whether I thought my books would still be around in 40 years, and I thought, 'How would I know, and why would I care?' Well, it turns out I really do care. "

" 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. "

" I believe that 'The Artist' is the kind of movie you see and you don't forget. I know it's going to stay with me. "

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

" 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. "

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

" When I lock myself up to write, I cannot allow myself to think about the censor or the reviewer or anyone but my characters and their story! "

" Anybody who says, 'My childhood was completely happy,' is a person who isn't remembering the truth. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't think people change; electronics change, the things we have change, but the way we live doesn't change. "

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

" Parents still have a big influence on their kids - just ask any therapist. No, really, I think the parent is the most important influence on children: It's how they learn to love and treat other people. "

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

" I was wildly interested in puberty as a child. "

" 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. "

" I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Life goes on if you're one of the lucky ones. "

" 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 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 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. "

" It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. "

" The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to. "