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" My father was the youngest of seven, and nobody lived to be 60. And so we were always sitting shiva in my house, and my father would say, 'Life goes on.' "

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" In 1970, somebody once asked me whether I thought my books would still be around in 40 years, and I thought, 'How would I know, and why would I care?' Well, it turns out I really do care. "

" 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. "

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" Many of my books are set in New Jersey because that's where I was born and raised. I lived there until my kids finished elementary school. Then we moved to New Mexico, the setting for 'Tiger Eyes.' "

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" I have a great T-shirt that I received at the New Jersey Hall of Fame when I was inducted. It says - it makes me choke up - it says, 'I'm a Jersey tomato'... I am. I am a Jersey girl and proud of it. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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