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

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

" Here's the thing: If you don't want your kids to read a book, fine. You can tell them not to read a book, and maybe they will and maybe they won't. But you can't say what other kids can read. "

" I'm never doing a long novel again, truly. "

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

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

" I don't have anything new to say about teenagers. "

" 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. "

" When I lock myself up to write, I cannot allow myself to think about the censor or the reviewer or anyone but my characters and their story! "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 Besides, as soon as you put something 'electronic' in a book, it's already out of date by the time it's published: everything will have changed.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 used to love getting on planes. I loved the packing and going places. Now I don't because I've developed these really bad sinuses. I have to take a prednisone to fly, but it works, and I'm OK. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time' has been targeted by censors for promoting New Ageism, and Mark Twain's 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' for promoting racism. Gee, where does that leave the kids? "

" I'm not the world's best mother, though kids always assume I must be. "

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

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