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" The '50s were a secretive time. "

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" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I wasn't that good at science, and I gave up on math long before I should have. I like to think if I were in school today that would be different. "

" 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 can't read fiction when I'm writing fiction, because I get intimidated if I read something really good. "

" 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 an Obama chick. "

" My husband is a feminist! "

" 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. "

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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.' "

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

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" 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. "

" I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet. "

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" 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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" When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside. "