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

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

" I was always a storyteller. I just didn't know it. I never shared the stories I made up inside my head when I was growing up. I never wrote them down, either. But I can't remember a time when they weren't there. "

" 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 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 discovered the National Coalition Against Censorship when I felt totally alone in my fight to protect intellectual freedom, and that group changed my life. I was no longer alone. "

" What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters. "

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

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

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

" When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I love to watch movies. "

" 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. "

" We can have our beliefs and still read and discuss things. "

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

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

" The list of gifted teachers and librarians who find their jobs in jeopardy for defending their students' right to read, to imagine, to question, grows every year. "

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

" As a child who loved to read, I had trouble finding honest stories. I felt that adults were always keeping secrets from me, even in the books I was reading. "

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

" The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books. "

" 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. "

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

" I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title.' "

" I've never been one to let others decide what's right for me or my children. "