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" Life goes on if you're one of the lucky ones. "

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" 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. "

" 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 don't think people change; electronics change, the things we have change, but the way we live doesn't change. "

" 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. "

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

" I still have such a thing for leather jackets. I have a closet full of them, and my husband is always saying to me, 'Why do you need another jacket? You have plenty of jackets.' "

" I used to read about people who'd say, 'I dream my books, and then I write them down.' And I was like, 'Oh, please.' "

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

" 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. "

" My kids both had acne, and I never saw a book dealing with the subject. "

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

" 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. "

" The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to. "

" 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. "

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

" If only there was a vaccine to protect against breast cancer, we'd be lining up - wouldn't we? "

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

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

" 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. "

" When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read. "

" 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. "

" 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 think divorce is a tragedy, traumatic and horribly painful for everybody. That's why I wrote 'Smart Women.' I want kids to read that and to think what life might be like for their parents. And I want parents to think about what life is like for their kids. "

" By the time I was 12, I was reading my parents' books because there weren't teenage books then. "

" I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them. "

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

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

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