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

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" 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'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! "

" My kids both had acne, and I never saw a book dealing with the subject. "

" The '50s were a secretive time. "

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

" We can have our beliefs and still read and discuss things. "

" I am very sentimental, very emotional, but never in my writing; I am very tough. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have the most loyal readers in the world. "

" I love to watch movies. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

" In sixth grade, I made up books to give book reports on. "

" 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. "

" When I see kids standing next to their mothers at book signings, clutching a copy of 'Forever,' I know what's coming. They'll say to me, 'How old do I have to be to read this?' hoping I'll give them permission. But I can't do that. "

" 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. "

" When a parent comes into school waving a book and saying, 'Take this book away. I don't like this book.' I won't say in all cases, but in many cases, that will not happen anymore. It has to go through a proper review board. The complaining parent will have to fill out a complaint, you know, put it in writing. "

" 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 don't want to repeat myself. "

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

" 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. "