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

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

" 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 deal with writer's block, I don't allow myself to believe that there is such a thing. I think that there are good days and a lot more less good days. "

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

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

" We're supposed to be uncomfortable when we read something. That's how we learn. "

" 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 discovered the National Coalition Against Censorship when I felt totally alone in my fight to protect intellectual freedom, and that group changed my life. I was no longer alone. "

" 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 wish I could prevent my kids from making all the mistakes I've made. But I can't do that. No parent can. "

" I'm not the world's best mother, though kids always assume I must be. "

" I've never been one to let others decide what's right for me or my children. "

" It's good to have fantasies and creative fantasies, especially. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it to an editor. "

" 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? "

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

" Anyone who thinks my life is cupcakes is all wrong. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The women's movement was slow in coming to suburban New Jersey. "

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

" 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! "