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" Telling kids the truth isn't always entirely possible, but talking to them is. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Nobody ever asks me why my characters don't text each other. Besides, as soon as you put something 'electronic' in a book, it's already out of date by the time it's published: everything will have changed. Human emotion, on the other hand, will never change. "

" The women's movement was slow in coming to suburban New Jersey. "

" If those of us who care about making our own decisions about what to read and what to think don't take a stand, others will decide for us. "

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

" When I was young, I loved a series of books by an author called Maud Hart Lovelace and the series, which is still around, I'm happy to say, is - they're the 'Betsy-Tacy' books. "

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

" 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 love to watch movies. "

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

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

" I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts. "

" A good writer is always a people watcher. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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.' "

" I wish I'd gone to a small liberal-arts college where I'd have read the great books instead of a large university where I majored in early-childhood education. "

" I am such a rewriter; I have so many notebooks filled with drafts you wouldn't believe. "

" I wrote 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret' right out of my own experiences and my own feelings when I was in sixth grade. "

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