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" 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. "

" My mother's mantra was, 'How would it look to the neighbors?' And so you don't do anything because you're worried about how it would look to the neighbors. "

" Parents still have a big influence on their kids - just ask any therapist. No, really, I think the parent is the most important influence on children: It's how they learn to love and treat other people. "

" 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 don't do issue writing. I do character writing. "

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

" 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 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

" I am very sentimental, very emotional, but never in my writing; I am very tough. "

" I was wildly interested in puberty as a child. "

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

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

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

" 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 love to watch movies. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" At the time I wrote 'Forever,' I had a 14-year-old daughter, and she was reading a lot of books about young love. "

" I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head. "

" 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! "

" I don't think I could set a book in a place without knowing it really well. "

" A novel is about people. "

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

" 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. "

" My mother told me once that she had her talk with God whenever she started a new sweater: 'Please don't take me in the middle of the sweater.' And as soon as she finished knitting a sweater, and it was blocked and put together, she already had the wool to start the next sweater so that nothing bad would happen. "