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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear. "

" 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. "

" 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 Besides, as soon as you put something 'electronic' in a book, it's already out of date by the time it's published: everything will have changed.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. "

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

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

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

" 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'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! "

" It's all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it's that determination. "

" My father died when I was still in college, and it was sudden, and he was my beloved parent, and you just can't imagine what you life is going to be like. "

" 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! "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" A good writer is always a people watcher. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" I never thought I wanted to write about the '50s, because I thought it was the most boring and bland decade to grow up in, and I never wanted to go back there. "

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

" My husband is a feminist! "

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