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" It embarrasses me to flaunt anything good written about me or my books. I don't know what we're supposed to do about that. "

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" The '50s were a secretive time. "

" 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 always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title.' "

" 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'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 husband is a feminist! "

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

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

" I dread first drafts! I worry each day that it won't come, that nothing will happen. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 was a fearful kid and, for some crazy reason, a pretty fearless writer. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I was twenty-seven when I began to write seriously, and after two years of rejections, my first book, 'The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo,' was accepted for publication. "

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

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

" My husband and I like to reminisce about how, when we were 9, we read straight through L. Frank Baum's 'Oz' series, books filled with wizards and witches. And you know what those subversive tales taught us? That we loved to read! "

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