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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" I don't have anything new to say about teenagers. "

" The '50s were a secretive time. "

" I'm not good at keeping secrets. "

" After each book, I get panicky. I don't love the reviews. I don't like going through all that, and you would think that, after almost 40 years of writing, I'd have got the hang of it. "

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

" I can't relate to people who treat me as a 'famous person.' I only like to hang around with people who treat me as a regular person because that's what I am. All people are really just regular. "

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

" I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

" I'm never doing a long novel again, truly. "

" Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time' has been targeted by censors for promoting New Ageism, and Mark Twain's 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' for promoting racism. Gee, where does that leave the kids? "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I'm an optimistic person, so I like to leave my readers with a sense of hopefulness. "

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

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

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

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

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