Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

" I love to watch movies. "

" I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm an Obama chick. "

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

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

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

" Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear. "

" 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 think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives. "

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

" Nobody talks about housewives anymore! This is what we were supposed to do in the '50s. Not everybody, but in my milieu. My crowd. You went to college, and you got a degree in case, God forbid, you ever had to work. And you better find somebody to marry while you're there, because otherwise, what's going to become of you? "

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

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

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

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

" A novel is about people. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great. "

" 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. "