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" I'll always be grateful for 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.' It brought me many, many, readers. "

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" I'm thinking of sending out censorship packets: information to share with those who want to defend my books when they come under fire. I'll tell why I wrote them and include reviews and letters of support from children and their parents. "

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

" What can happen if a young reader picks up a book he/she isn't yet ready for? Questions, maybe. Usually, that child puts down the book and says, 'Boring.' Or, 'I'm not ready for this.' Kids are really good at knowing what they can handle. "

" I'm phobic about thunderstorms. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm very lucky in that my agent and my editors know better. They don't push me. Because I don't take that well. "

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

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

" When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read. "

" I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became. "

" 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 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. "

" 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 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 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I can't see an autobiography in my future. But who knows what might happen. "

" A good writer is always a people watcher. "

" I'm not good at keeping secrets. "

" Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

" I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning. "